“If it’s a story I’m telling, then I have control over the ending. Then there will be an ending, to the story,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Although he doesn't know it yet, she isn't his real life. But he is hers. This is painful.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Apart from all this, I do of course have a real life. I sometimes have trouble believing in it, because it doesn't… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I would like to believe this is a story I’m telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it. Those who… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Anything that doesn't fit this mode has been shoved into an area of lesser solemnity called 'genre fiction,' and it is here… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Why interesting and important? Because women are interesting and important in real life. They are not an afterthought of nature, they are… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I would like to believe this is a story I'm telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it. Those who… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It was exciting to work with director Jennifer Baichwal, who made Manufactured Landscapes and others, on the film of Payback: Debt and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The Loneliness of the Military Historian Confess: it's my profession that alarms you. This is why few people ask me to dinner,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I'm fine," said Pilar, "for the moment. And the moment is the only time we can be fine in.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“Mary: Some call this "Eve's curse," but I think that is stupid because the real curse of Eve was having to put up with… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“The birds were singing around me, but I reflected that the very birds were strangers to me, for I did not even know their… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“Strange how we decorate pain. These ribbons, for instance, and the small hard teardrops of blood. Who are they for? Do we think the… — margaret atwood Copy Share
I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd never thought… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“Simon walks back to the house alone. The night is clear and warm, with a moon, almost full, enclosed in a nimbus of mist;… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“Every time the women appear, Snowman is astonished all over again. They're every known colour from the deepest black to whitest white, they're various… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“She knows she's deceiving herself about that, but she prefers to deceive herself. She desperately needs to believe such pure joy is still possible.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
