Needs Quotes by Margaret Atwood

He considers me also a little fragile because artistic. I need to be cared for, like a potted plant.

— Margaret Atwood

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

— Margaret Atwood

The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.

— Margaret Atwood

Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Margaret Atwood

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

And she finds it difficult to believe—that a person would love her even when she isn't trying. Trying to figure out what…

— Margaret Atwood

Where to start is the problem, because nothing begins when it begins and nothing's over when it's over, and everything needs a…

— Margaret Atwood

The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don’t ever ask for the true…

— 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

Ah men, why do you want all this attention? I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutely…

— Margaret Atwood

I would like to believe this is a story I’m telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it. Those who…

— Margaret Atwood

You most likely need a thesaurus, a rudimentary grammar book, and a grip on reality. This latter means: there's no free lunch.…

— Margaret Atwood

What people want is perfection," said the man. "In themselves." "But they need the steps to it to be pointed out," said…

— Margaret Atwood

at last you, will say (maybe without speaking) (there are mountains inside your skull garden and chaos, ocean and hurricane; certain corners…

— Margaret Atwood

You're sad because you're sad. It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical. Go see a shrink or take a pill, or hug…

— Margaret Atwood

Those walls and bars are there for a reason,” said Crake. “Not to keep us out, but to keep them in. Mankind…

— Margaret Atwood

I was unfair to him, of course, but where would I have been without unfairness? In thrall, in harness. Young women need…

— Margaret Atwood

As human beings, we are always torn between individual freedom and the ability of choose our actions, and the need for at…

— Margaret Atwood

What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective…

— Margaret Atwood

“By now you must have guessed: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, Take me to your…

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Margaret Atwood

Everybody was going along thinking that it was a day like any other day, and bang, down went the Twin Towers. Changed…

— Margaret Atwood

They are hypocrites, they think the Church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and…

— Margaret Atwood

When they came to harvest my corpse (open your mouth, close your eyes) cut my body from the rope, surprise, surprise: I…

— Margaret Atwood

Nature full strength is more than we can take, Adam One used to say. It's a potent hallucinogen, a soporific, for the…

— Margaret Atwood

The world is being run by people my age, men my age, with falling-out hair and health worries, and it frightens me.…

— Margaret Atwood

Plague has hung over human history. The biggest human extinction was after 1492 in North and South America when the mortality rate…

— Margaret Atwood