Kind Quotes by Margaret Atwood

When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.

— Margaret Atwood

People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart.

— Margaret Atwood

I never say I'm an "ist" of any kind unless I know how the other person is defining it.

— Margaret Atwood

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

The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.

— Margaret Atwood

The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.

— Margaret Atwood

Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together.

— Margaret Atwood

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a…

— Margaret Atwood

i sometimes felt as if these marks on my body were a kind of code, which blossomed, then faded, like invisible ink…

— Margaret Atwood

My family was big on sharing. I guess it was just the way I was brought up. Or maybe, I read those…

— Margaret Atwood

The farther north you go, the fewer fruits and vegetables there are. What kind of apple trees do you suggest the Inuit…

— Margaret Atwood

There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it…

— Margaret Atwood

We should take a lesson from the Irish potato famine: monocultures are vulnerable. Monocultures of any kind are very vulnerable, because one…

— Margaret Atwood

When I was 16 I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. My main feedback came from my English teacher,…

— Margaret Atwood

He stops, looks up at this window, and I can see the white oblong of his face. We look at each other.…

— Margaret Atwood

Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme…

— Margaret Atwood

Teaching other people to write is not something I can do. The only kind of advice I can give them will be…

— Margaret Atwood

There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not…

— Margaret Atwood

The film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth] opens with an Albanian blood feud and goes on to delve into,…

— Margaret Atwood

It was exciting to work with director Jennifer Baichwal, who made Manufactured Landscapes and others, on the film of Payback: Debt and…

— Margaret Atwood

The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe;…

— Margaret Atwood

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

In view of the fading animals the proliferation of sewers and fears the sea clogging, the air nearing extinction we should be…

— Margaret Atwood

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

Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like…

— Margaret Atwood

“Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds of roughing it.”

— Margaret Atwood

I don't think it's a question of whether you eat meat. It's a question of what kind of meat, and where it…

— Margaret Atwood

I am nervous about dogmas of any kind, whether they be religious, political, or anti-religious. Too many heads have rolled because of…

— Margaret Atwood

Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality -…

— Margaret Atwood

I never have [suffered writer’s block], although I’ve had books that didn’t work out. I had to stop writing them. I just…

— Margaret Atwood

And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain.…

— Margaret Atwood

Within one's own family money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme…

— Margaret Atwood

She wasn't ready to settle down, she told her friends. That was one way of putting it. Another was would have been…

— Margaret Atwood