1555: Alice Munro (1931–2024): A Chronology in Her Own Words
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/10/17
How do place, memory, and the seismic drama of ordinary lives shift across her decades of stories?
1971: “People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, unfathomable — deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.”
1986: “Everybody in the community is on stage for all the other people.”
1986: “I don’t think I’ll ever write a novel.”
1994: “No, I don’t show anything in progress to anybody.”
1996: “I speak the language.”
2003: “Books seem to me to be magic, and I wanted to be part of the magic.”
2004: “The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.”
2008: “In your life there are a few places, or maybe only one place, where something has happened.”
2010: “We can hardly manage our lives without a powerful ongoing narrative.”
2012: “But we do — we do it all the time.”
2013: “You don’t go around and tell your friends that I will probably win the Nobel Prize.”
2013: “I want my stories to move people, I don’t care if they are men or women or children.”
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