1555: Alice Munro (1931–2024): A Chronology in Her Own Words

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."