Literature Quotes by Margaret Atwood

12 Literature quotes by Margaret Atwood

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I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.

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Literature is not only a mirror; it is a map, a geography of the mind.

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Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

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The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

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The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

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The central symbol for Canada-and this based on numerous instances of its occurrence in both English and French Canadian literature-is undoubtedly Survival,…

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My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could…

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I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply…

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I enjoyed teaching. I liked the students. Having to formulate my ideas about literature made them clearer. I did not particularly enjoy…

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In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught "creative writing." We were taught literature and grammar.…

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When we're good, we're very, very good, and when we're bad, we're horrid. This is not news, because we're so much more inventive and we have two hands, the left and the right. That is how we think. It's all over our literature, and it's all over the way we arrange archetypes, the good version, the bad version, the god,…

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What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see…

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“I'm fine," said Pilar, "for the moment. And the moment is the only time we can be fine in.”

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And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.

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“The birds were singing around me, but I reflected that the very birds were strangers to me, for I did not even know their…

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“Strange how we decorate pain. These ribbons, for instance, and the small hard teardrops of blood. Who are they for? Do we think the…

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I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.

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“Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd never thought…

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“It's my fault. I am forgetting too much.”

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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…

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“Simon walks back to the house alone. The night is clear and warm, with a moon, almost full, enclosed in a nimbus of mist;…

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“There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.”

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“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 heights, but each one of them is admirably proportioned. Each is sound of tooth, smooth of skin. No ripples of fat around their waists, no bulges, no dimpled orange-skin cellulite on their thighs. No body hair,…

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