You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

- Alice Munro

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

- Alice Munro

People have thoughts they’d sooner not have. It happens in life.

- Alice Munro

She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major …

- Alice Munro

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened i…

- Alice Munro

I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth, but to feel some kind of reward from the writi…

- Alice Munro

Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.

- Alice Munro

A story is not like a road to follow... it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where…

- Alice Munro

I don't always, or even usually, read stories from beginning to end. I start anywhere and proceed in either direction. A story is not like a road to …

- Alice Munro