Things musicals taught me: All your problems will go away if you sing about it. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If you're a woman writer, sometime, somewhere, you will be asked: Do you think of yourself as a writer first, or as… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I am not running for mayor yet. But if it comes to be true that people cannot voice an opinion unless they… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If a stranger taps you on the ass and says, "How's the little lady today!" you will probably cringe. But if he's… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The cat jumps up on the bed and tries to get onto my head. It's his way of telling whether or not… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Men and women are not "equal" if "equal" means "exactly the same." Our many puzzlements and indeed unhappinesses come from trying to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where… — 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
I did ... learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it's about… — 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
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
A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It's very hard for students not to be in debt unless they've got big scholarships or rich parents. And it's called investing… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Some of the old diseases that we think are gone - case in point, measles - are back, now that somebody has… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Under the old system - which is now so archaic that a lot of people can't remember it - if you wanted… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When we cracked the genetic DNA code, opened the big Pandora's box, and it really did become possible to produce chimeras, my… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Somebody has been a complete ratbag all their life and they've gotten away with it, and they die happy and rich, we… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Writers are much better behaved nowadays, for a couple of reasons. Once upon a time nobody was thinking of a career, unless… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
One of the reasons [William] Shakespeare is so endlessly fascinating is that you can look at that figure from about 10 different… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Books are frozen voices, in the same way that musical scores are frozen music. The score is a way of transmitting the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It's true that there is a rescue thing in people, and not just rescuing the family, which is kind of obvious from… — 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
Writing is alone, but I don't think it's lonely. Ask any writer if they feel lonely when they're writing their book, and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I wish you good writing and good luck. Even if you've already done the good writing, you'll still need the good luck.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Everybody acts as if they have free will. They act as if they can make these decisions; do they know they don't?… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I feel that the task of criticizing my poetry is best left to others (i.e. critics) and would much rather have it… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If you disagree with your government, that's political. If you disagree with your government that is approaching theocracy, then you're evil. — 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
I myself discovered many authors through school reading lists and through school anthologies. The positives are: young readers can find the world… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Having been brought up among the biologists and having followed various debates about ways to improve the human template and other debates… — 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
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