Alice Munro Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.

  Alice Munro

  Notebook, Reading, Knowing

• It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or ornate, and what was inside them might as well have been dust.

  Alice Munro

  Book, Reading, Dust

  Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.587, Vintage

• 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.

  Alice Munro

  Reading, House, Stories

• I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards I went back to being more or less the same.

  Alice Munro

  Art, Book, Reading

  Alice Munro (1974). “Something I've been meaning to tell you: thirteen stories”, Plume

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