Quotes by Thinking I used to feel for years and years and years that I was very remiss not to have written a novel and I would question people who wrote novels and try to find out how they did it and how they had got past page 30. Then, with the approach of old age, I began to just think: “Well, lucky I can do anything at all. Alice Munro pastyearsthinking If I decided to send this to you, where would I send it? When I think of writing the whole address on the envelope I am paralyzed. It's too painful to think of you in the same place with your life going on in the same way, minus me. And to think of you not there, you somewhere else but I don't know where that is, is worse. Alice Munro somewhere-elsewritingthinking You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never. Alice Munro changedanswersthinking And did I not think then, What nonsense it is to suppose one man so different from another when all that life really boils down to is getting a decent cup of coffee and room to stretch out in? Alice Munro coffeementhinking Now that I think of it, she looked splendid. I wish I had met her somewhere else. I wish I had appreciated her as she deserved. I wish that everything had gone differently. Alice Munro wishsomewhere-elsethinking In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it. Alice Munro writingmeanthinking When I told him on the phone that after all you and I would not be getting married, he said "Oh-oh. Do you think you'll ever manage to get another one?" If I'd objected to his saying that he would naturally have said it was a joke. And it was a joke. I have not managed to get another one but perhaps have not been in the best condition to try. Alice Munro phonestryingthinking I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me. Alice Neel painttheorythinking If you can't think of anything nice to say, come sit here beside me. Alice Roosevelt Longworth niceifsthinking I dont think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something. Alice Sebold distanceignorancethinking What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed animals, taking lesser lives to keep from killing a child Alice Sebold animalchildrenthinking For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil. I think that for me heaven isn't about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again. Alice Sebold growing-upevilthinking I couldn't help but think, as I watched him, of the barrels of toxic fluids that had accrued behind Hal's bike shop where the scrub lining the railroad tracks had offered local companies enough cover to dump a stray contaner or two. Everything had been sealed up, but things were beginning to leak out. I had come to both pity and respect Len in the years since my mother left. He followed the physical to try to understand things that were impossible to comphrehend. In that, I could see, he was like me. Alice Sebold motheryearsthinking And there she was, alone and walking out in the cornfield while everyone else I cared for sat together in one room. She would always feel me and think of me. I could see that, but there was no longer anything I could do. Ruth had been a girl haunted and now she would be a woman haunted. First by accident and now by choice. All of it, the story of my life and death, was hers if she chose tot ell it, even to one person at a time. Alice Sebold life-and-deathgirlthinking The sun came through the branches of the tree above her, and Ruth looked up past them. "I think she listens," she said, too softly to be heard. Alice Sebold treepastthinking I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things. Alice Sebold kindpersonalitythinking A lot of people ask questions that they don't want to answer themselves, and if we're honest about the intimacy that we have with our parents, you wish them the best and you wish them the worst more than anybody else in the world. I think everyone has had a moment in their life where they wished a parent ill, and I think it's perhaps a very romantic idea that that doesn't happen. Alice Sebold peopleideasthinking I think that if you're somebody who's a control freak, the process would make you crazy, but I'm kind of a process freak, so I'm excited to see what he does with it. I know it's not going to be my book, so just starting with that knowledge frees me from having to get all freaked out about it. Alice Sebold crazybookthinking Books and novels in particular that grapple with quite a few things are difficult to explain, so I think that first line can come in a substitute for trying to form a longer sense of what the book is about. Alice Sebold tryingbookthinking From out the peaceful hollow of its throat / such music pours as I am unaware / how to devise. I did not think these things. / It is the reed that sings. Alice Smith peacefulmusicthinking«134135136137138139140141142143144»
