“It was as if they could read each other’s minds. No, not minds: each other’s mindlessness.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I enjoyed teaching. I liked the students. Having to formulate my ideas about literature made them clearer. I did not particularly enjoy… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“If writing novels - and reading them - have any redeeming social value, it's probably that they force you to imagine what… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It doesn't really matter what "genre" your book is. What matters is that it's a good book of its kind. Whatever that… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I reached the privy and emptied the slop pail, and so forth. And so forth, Grace? asks Dr.Jordan. I look at him.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Love was merely a tool, smiles were another tool, they were both just tools for accomplishing certain ends. No magic, merely chemicals.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
As I was whizzing around the United States on yet another demented book tour, getting up at four in the morning to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“So, the book is not 'anti-religion.' It is against the use of religion as a front for tyranny; which is a different… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I meet a lot of readers who first encountered my work in school. And I can only assume there is another group… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed. — 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 Image
And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“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 Image
