Alice Munro Quotes About Short Stories

Quotes about: Short Stories

• I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

  Alice Munro

  Art, People, Important

• I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth, but to feel some kind of reward from the writing, and that doesn't mean that it has to be a happy ending or anything, but just that everything the story tells moves the reader in such a way that you feel you are a different person when you finish.

  Alice Munro

  Moving, Writing, Mean

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Oct 01, 2014

• 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.

  Alice Munro

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Long, Fiction

  "A Conversation with Alice Munro". Interview, knopfdoubleday.com.

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