I never have a problem with finding material. I wait for it to turn up, and it always turns up. Itโs dealing with the material Iโm inundated with that poses the problem.
Alice MunroI used to feel for years and years and years that I was very remiss not to have written a novel and I would question people who wrote novels and try to find out how they did it and how they had got past page 30. Then, with the approach of old age, I began to just think: โWell, lucky I can do anything at all.
Alice MunroI saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact measured and disciplined, because you have to survive. It could be done so discreetly that the object of such care would not suspect, any more than she would suspect the sentence of death itself.
Alice Munro