--- title: "15 Lines Quotes By Margaret Atwood" description: "15 Lines quotes by Margaret Atwood. Plus more from Margaret Atwood and more Lines sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a32/margaret-atwood-40_boundaries_why-is-it-he-feels-some-line-has-been-cr_2311963.jpg" --- > [Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed? How much is too much, how far is too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/why-is-it-he-feels-some-line-has-been-crossed-some-boundary/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a32/margaret-atwood-40_boundaries_why-is-it-he-feels-some-line-has-been-cr_2311963.jpg) > [Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/time-is-not-a-line-but-a-dimension-like-the-dimensions-of-space/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eac/margaret-atwood-40_dimension_time-is-not-a-line-but-a-dimension-like_199247.jpg) > [Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/don-t-be-married-to-a-line-or-verse-if-it-can-t-rhyme-fit-the-meter/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ac/margaret-atwood-40_being-married_don-t-be-married-to-a-line-or-verse-if-i_1030702.jpg) > [Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/write-down-the-thoughts-and-even-more-write-down-a-specific-line-if/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/106/margaret-atwood-40_fly-away_write-down-the-thoughts-and-even-more-wr_2034139.jpg) > [Poetry isn't written from the idea down. It's written from the phrase, line and stanza up, which is different from what your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/poetry-isn-t-written-from-the-idea-down-it-s-written-from-the-phrase/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/473/margaret-atwood-40_different_poetry-isn-t-written-from-the-idea-down_141609.jpg) > [Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/every-budding-dictatorship-begins-by-muzzling-the-artists-because/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70d/margaret-atwood-40_art_every-budding-dictatorship-begins-by-muz_1938753.jpg) > [Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. If you can bend space you can bend time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/time-is-not-a-line-but-a-dimension-like-the-dimensions-of-space-if/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/243/margaret-atwood-40_backwards_time-is-not-a-line-but-a-dimension-like_551296.jpg) > [Where do you draw the line, between love and greed? We never did know, we always wanted more. We want to take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/where-do-you-draw-the-line-between-love-and-greed-we-never-did-know/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bff/margaret-atwood-40_draws_where-do-you-draw-the-line-between-love_862665.jpg) > [Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/like-many-modern-poets-i-tend-to-conceal-rhymes-by-placing-them-in/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e8/margaret-atwood-40_alliteration_like-many-modern-poets-i-tend-to-conceal_2016075.jpg) > [Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/men-are-not-to-be-told-anything-they-might-find-too-painful-the/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b5/margaret-atwood-40_accustomed_men-are-not-to-be-told-anything-they-mig_1571709.jpg) > [We have begun to slam doors, and to throw things. I throw my purse, an ashtray, a package of chocolate chips, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/we-have-begun-to-slam-doors-and-to-throw-things-i-throw-my-purse-an/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6e/margaret-atwood-40_boxes_we-have-begun-to-slam-doors-and-to-throw_1893303.jpg) > [I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. If you'd wanted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/i-m-working-on-my-own-life-story-i-don-t-mean-i-m-putting-it-together-2/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81e/margaret-atwood-40_life_i-m-working-on-my-own-life-story-i-don-t_1993512.jpg) > [Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/night-falls-or-has-fallen-why-is-it-that-night-falls-instead-of-2/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d4/margaret-atwood-40_behinds_night-falls-or-has-fallen-why-is-it-that_769358.jpg) > [There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/there-were-no-men-in-this-painting-but-it-was-about-men-the-kind-who/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a4/margaret-atwood-40_blame_there-were-no-men-in-this-painting-but-i_2667884.jpg) > [But we still find the world astounding, we can't get enough of it; even as it shrivels, even as its many lights…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/but-we-still-find-the-world-astounding-we-can-t-get-enough-of-it-even/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/455/margaret-atwood-40_dolphins_but-we-still-find-the-world-astounding-w_331230.jpg) ## Other authors on Lines ## More by Margaret Atwood > [“I'm fine," said Pilar, "for the moment. And the moment is the only time we can be fine in.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/i-m-fine-said-pilar-for-the-moment-and-the-moment-is-the-only-time-we/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/and-yet-it-disturbs-me-to-learn-i-have-hurt-someone-unintentionally-i/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/mary-some-call-this-eve-s-curse-but-i-think-that-is-stupid-because/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“The birds were singing around me, but I reflected that the very birds were strangers to me, for I did not even know their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/the-birds-were-singing-around-me-but-i-reflected-that-the-very-birds/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“Strange how we decorate pain. These ribbons, for instance, and the small hard teardrops of blood. Who are they for? Do we think the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/strange-how-we-decorate-pain-these-ribbons-for-instance-and-the-small/) [margaret atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/i-wanted-to-forget-the-past-but-it-refused-to-forget-me-it-waited-for/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd never thought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/back-at-home-they-drew-the-curtains-and-read-with-disapproval-with/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“It's my fault. I am forgetting too much.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/it-s-my-fault-i-am-forgetting-too-much/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/all-fiction-is-about-people-unless-it-s-about-rabbits-pretending-to/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“Simon walks back to the house alone. The night is clear and warm, with a moon, almost full, enclosed in a nimbus of mist;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/simon-walks-back-to-the-house-alone-the-night-is-clear-and-warm-with/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/there-is-indeed-something-delightful-about-being-able-to-combine/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/every-time-the-women-appear-snowman-is-astonished-all-over-again-they/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/once-you-publish-a-book-it-is-out-of-your-control-you-cannot-dictate/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/the-more-difficult-it-was-to-love-the-particular-man-beside-us-the/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/she-knows-she-s-deceiving-herself-about-that-but-she-prefers-to/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lines/margaret-atwood/#itemlist", "name": "15 Lines Quotes By Margaret Atwood", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed? 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