Alice Munro Books - Reading quotes

" I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the "what happens," but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me. " # Books - Reading # Writers and Writing # Fiction

" Sometimes I read one of my stories, maybe one that I wrote thirty years ago, and I think, Now I'd go and do it differently. Or I think I would just alter a phrase that seems to me a little too polished or too sharp or too smart-aleck or something. Or too ironic. Irony was so big then that it got under your skin and you sort of didn't recognize it. " # Books - Reading # Writers and Writing # Age and Aging