Alice Munro Quotes

Canada, Writer
July 10, 1931

Alice Ann Munro (/ˈælɪs ˌæn mʌnˈroʊ/, née Laidlaw /ˈleɪdlɔː/; born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Munro's work has been described as having revolutionized the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time. Her stories have been said to "embed more than announce, reveal more than parade."

Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.

Alice Munro
- She
- Grief
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 in the room along with her.

Alice Munro
- She
- Remember

'The thing is to be happy,' he said. 'No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, and you're just there, going along easy in the world.'

Alice Munro
- World
- Good
- Believe
In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

Alice Munro
- Life
She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood: that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.

Alice Munro
- People
- Life
- She
You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

Alice Munro
- Real
- Parents