The Ways In Which A

Alice Munro Can Move Characters Through Time In A Way That No Other Writer Can.

The Writer Must Be Universal In Sympathy And An Outcast By Nature: Only Then Can He See Clearly.

We Must Be Precise With Love, Its Language And Its Gestures. If It Is To Save Us, We Must Look At It As Clearly As We Should Learn To Look At Death

History Is The Lies Of The Victors.

The Writer's Life [is] Full Of Frailty And Defeat Like Any Other Life. What Counts Is The Work. Yet The Work Can Quite Easily Be Buried, Or Half-buried, By The Life.