People Quotes by Margaret Atwood

“So few people understand about anything.”

— Margaret Atwood

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

— Margaret Atwood

People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart.

— Margaret Atwood

People can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

— Margaret Atwood

Jimmy found himself wishing to make a dent in Crake, get a reaction; it was one of his weaknesses, to care what…

— Margaret Atwood

You meet the same people on the way down that you meet on the way up, but you're going the other way.

— Margaret Atwood

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used…

— Margaret Atwood

I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and…

— Margaret Atwood

We do not know how we'd behave. But a lot of people facing fascism didn't become fascists. I don't happen to believe…

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Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

— Margaret Atwood

And she finds it difficult to believe—that a person would love her even when she isn't trying. Trying to figure out what…

— Margaret Atwood

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.

— Margaret Atwood

As William Gibson says, the future is already here but it's lumpy. It's unevenly distributed. Some people are already living this, the…

— Margaret Atwood

If you DJ reality, that is, if you make a mash-up of actual reality, you're going to end up with something that…

— Margaret Atwood

Whatever the scientists may come up with, writers and artists will continue to portray altered mental states, simply because few aspects of…

— Margaret Atwood

This has been her problem all her life: picturing other people's responses. She's too good at it. She can picture the response…

— Margaret Atwood

You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but…

— Margaret Atwood

I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me…

— Margaret Atwood

Just as if you do a mash-up of reality from the point of view of African Americans in this country, you're going…

— Margaret Atwood

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill…

— Margaret Atwood

Even in the tragedies, Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people…

— Margaret Atwood

In the First World War, people would be receiving letters from loved ones who had been dead for weeks, and they would…

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It's true that there is a rescue thing in people, and not just rescuing the family, which is kind of obvious from…

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People talking about politics usually start from the ass end backwards in that they think you have a political agenda, and then…

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There are novels that end well, but in between there are human beings acting like human beings. And human beings are not…

— Margaret Atwood

Once I was in Texas, where they had this thing called Ralph the Swimming Pig. You went into a theater and you…

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The world is being run by people my age, men my age, with falling-out hair and health worries, and it frightens me.…

— Margaret Atwood

You cannot teach somebody to write a masterpiece, but you can certainly teach them how to improve their writing skills. And you…

— Margaret Atwood

“Walking was not fast enough so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was not fast enough, so…

— Margaret Atwood

I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

— Margaret Atwood

Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that.

— Margaret Atwood

But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.

— Margaret Atwood

Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people…

— Margaret Atwood

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.

— Margaret Atwood

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

— Margaret Atwood

I am not running for mayor yet. But if it comes to be true that people cannot voice an opinion unless they…

— Margaret Atwood

We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're…

— Margaret Atwood

History, as I recall, was never this winsome, and especially not this clean, but the real thing would never sell: most people…

— Margaret Atwood

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

— Margaret Atwood

But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.

— Margaret Atwood