Alice Munro Quotes on Storytelling
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Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally, I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.
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Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
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Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.