Memang benar bahwa ketika saya masih muda, menulis bagi saya terasa begitu penting sehingga saya akan mengorbankan hampir apa saja untuk itu ... Karena saya memikirkan dunia tempat saya menulis - dunia yang saya ciptakan - entah bagaimana jauh lebih dahsyat hidup daripada dunia tempat saya sebenarnya tinggal. Asli: It's certainly true that when I was young, writing seemed to me so important that I would have sacrificed almost anything to it ... Because I thought of the world in which I wrote -- the world I created -- as somehow much more enormously alive than the world I was actually living in.

— Alice Munro