"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 follow, it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while."

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Source : "Selected Stories, 1968-1994". Book by Alice Munro, 1996.

Alice Munro

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“I don't cry. Well, you know, I think coming from an acting background that's really helped me because I more than anyone know that an actor creates a character.”

Source : "'Growing Pains' Cast Reunion". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. February 7, 2006.
“It is a terrible, an inexorable law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.”
“Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up.”
“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.”
“willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.”
“There may be some sins of which a man cannot speak, but there is no sin which the blood of Christ cannot wash away.”
“We look in... Germany for a superstar. We began with 10,000 people, which applied. From these 10,000, 100 was selected. The jury is unbelievably competent.”
“A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all.”

Source : 'Blue Skies, Brown Studies' (1961) 'From a Writer's Notebook'

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