Different Quotes by Margaret Atwood

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

— Margaret Atwood

“It's fun to be different, but not too different!”

— Margaret Atwood

I myself have 12 hats, and each one represents a different personality. Why just be yourself?

— Margaret Atwood

Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain.

— Margaret Atwood

he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.

— Margaret Atwood

and each of his voices left his body in a different colored soul and floated up towards the sun still singing.

— Margaret Atwood

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas…

— Margaret Atwood

Poetry isn't written from the idea down. It's written from the phrase, line and stanza up, which is different from what your…

— Margaret Atwood

Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly…

— Margaret Atwood

'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.

— Margaret Atwood

“Hey. Everyone's different," says Derek. "But some are more different than others," says Budge, and they all laugh.”

— Margaret Atwood

When you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question.…

— Margaret Atwood

I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something…

— Margaret Atwood

I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just…

— Margaret Atwood

Reading ... changes you. You aren't the same person after you've read a particular book as you were before, and you will…

— Margaret Atwood

Imagine a famine. Now imagine a piece of bread. Both of these things are real but you happen to be in the…

— Margaret Atwood

When I was young I believed that "nonfiction" meant "true." But you read a history written in, say, 1920 and a history…

— Margaret Atwood

When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of…

— Margaret Atwood

Things might have been different if she hadn't been able to drift; if she'd had to concentrate on her next meal, instead…

— Margaret Atwood

I have never had any problems with editors who wanted me to change my methods or point of view. I pay a…

— Margaret Atwood

Canadians and Americans may look alike, but the contents of their heads are quite different. Americans experience themselves, individually, as small toads…

— Margaret Atwood

I wish this story were different. I wish it were more civilized. I wish it showed me in a better light, if…

— Margaret Atwood

One of the reasons [William] Shakespeare is so endlessly fascinating is that you can look at that figure from about 10 different…

— Margaret Atwood

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.…

— Margaret Atwood

I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge.…

— Margaret Atwood

Books are frozen voices, in the same way that musical scores are frozen music. The score is a way of transmitting the…

— Margaret Atwood