“Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“History (that list of ballooning wishes, flukes, bent times, plunges and mistakes clutched like parachutes) is rolling itself up in your head… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I wasn't even sure I wanted a man in my life again; by that time I'd exhausted the notion that the answer… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“speech to him was a task, a battle, words mustered behind his beard and issued one at a time, heavy and square… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“All writers must go from now to once upon a time; all must take care not to be captured and held immobile… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“You could tell a lot about a person from their fridge magnets, not that he'd thought much about them at the time.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability? It was in the air; and it was… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed - For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If a god showed up every time you put a quarter in the prayer slot it wouldn't be God, it would be… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“In times of extremes, extremists win. Their ideology becomes a religion, anyone who doesn't puppet their views is seen as an apostate,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I define science fiction as fiction in which things happen that are not possible today - that depend, for instance, on advanced… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Unlikely a handgun any more because it was around that time that the CorpSeCorps was confiscating those, having raised the spurious banner… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“You’ll have to forgive me. I’m a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“This is the kind of touch they like: folk art, archaic, made by women, in their spare time, from things that have… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The past no longer belongs only to those who once lived it; the past belongs to those who claim it, and are… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If we read books all the time we would be very unhealthy, as we would not get any fresh air, exercise, or… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Maybe acting as if she believes in such a future will help to create it, which is the kind of thing the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Moira became, over the years, increasingly versed in such anecdotes. I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I try to remember if the past was exactly like this. I'm not sure, now. I know it contained these things, but… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“What pays for all this?" "Grief in the face of inevitable death. The wish to stop time. The human condition.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The night is mine, my own time, to do with it as I will, as long as I am quiet. As long… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I have a fork and a spoon, but never a knife. When there’s meat they cut it up for me ahead of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The ochre-yellow linoleum floor hasn't been scrubbed for some time; splotches of dirt bloom on it like grey pressed flowers.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Thus the time passed. Toby stopped counting it. In any case, time is not a thing that passes, said Pilar: it’s a… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“But if you happen to be a man, sometime in the future, and you’ve made it this far, please remember: you will… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It's a critical fallacy of our times ... that a writer should 'grow,' 'change,' or 'develop.' This fallacy causes us to expect… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Is that how we lived, then? But we lived as usual. Everyone does, most of the time. Whatever is going on is… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
You always think, 'Oh, if only I had a little chalet in the mountains! How great that would be and I'd do… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The past is a great darkness, and filled with echos. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Of course Crake wasn’t Crake yet, at that time: his name was Glenn. Why did it have two n’s instead of the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“It can't last forever. Others have thought such things, in bad times before this, and they were always right, they did get… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“He could never get used to her, she was fresh every time, she was a casketful of secrets. Any moment now she… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“(All those paintings of women, in art galleries, surprised at private moments. Nymph Sleeping. Susanna and the Elders. Woman bathing, one foot… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing… — 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
