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Alice Munro 38
Canadian novelist 1931Related quotes
“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
Source: The Living
“She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him.”
Source: One Writer's Beginnings
11 November
Without Dogma (1891)
Context: I love her now beyond all words; she sees it, — she reads it in my eyes, and in my whole manner towards her. When I succeed in cheering her up, or call forth her smiles, I am beside myself with delight. There is at present in my love something of the attachment of the faithful servant who loves his mistress. I often feel as if I ought to humble myself before her, as if my proper place were at her feet. She never can grow ugly, changed, or old to me. I accept everything, agree to everything, and worship her as she is.
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.”
As quoted in Writers on Writing (1986) by Jon Winokur, p. 24
“Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living.”
Source: After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
