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A story is not like a road to follow... it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each

A story is not like a road to follow... it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside it altered by being viewed from these windows.

Alice Munro
House, Stories, World
"Selected Stories, 1968-1994". Book by Alice Munro, 1996.

I don't always, or even usually, read stories from beginning to end. I start anywhere and proceed in either direction. A story is not like a road to follow, it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while.

Alice Munro
Reading, House, Stories

Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are.

Alice Munro
Country, Phones, House
Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.359, Vintage

There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house. You can't know the limit beforehand, but you will know when you've reached it. I believe this.

Alice Munro
Believe, House, Limits
FaceBook post by Alice Munro from May 29, 2011

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