Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
Alice MunroIt's as if tendencies that seem most deeply rooted in our minds, most private and singular, have come in as spores on the prevailing wind, looking for any likely place to land, any welcome.
Alice MunroIt's certainly true that when I was young, writing seemed to me so important that I would have sacrificed almost anything to it ... Because I thought of the world in which I wrote -- the world I created -- as somehow much more enormously alive than the world I was actually living in.
Alice MunroIn 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