Alice Munro Can Move Characters

There Is Accumulation. There Is Responsibility. And Beyond This There Is Great Unrest.

[literature Is] A Process Of Producing Grand, Beautiful, Well-ordered Lies That Tell More Truth Than Any Assemblage Of Facts.

The More You Learn, The Less You Fear.

To Own A Certain Book - And To Choose It Without Help - Is To Define Yourself.

When You Read A Great Book, You Don’t Escape From Life, You Plunge Deeper Into It. There May Be A Superficial Escape – Into Different Countries, Mores, Speech Patterns – But What You Are Essentially Doing Is Furthering Your Understanding Of Life’s Subtleties, Paradoxes, Joys, Pains And Truths. Reading And Life Are Not Separate But Symbiotic.