All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves. — 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
...we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Anything that suffers and dies instead of us is Christ; if they didn't kill birds and fish they would have killed us.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
One good maxim to keep in mind, and I can't remember who said it, "You meet the same people on the way… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It had helped to keep her sane, that writing. Then, when time had begun again and real people had entered it, she'd… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
My father was a forest entomologist, which means he was aware that spraying forests for spruce budworm was counterproductive in that it… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Even in the tragedies, Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In the First World War, people would be receiving letters from loved ones who had been dead for weeks, and they would… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one's life trying to pretend that non-existent people… — 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
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
Keep the faith. Whatever that may be. Don't get too depressed yet, because I have a belief in America being very diverse… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place… — 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
People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A wave of blood goes up to my head, my stomach shrinks together, as if something dangerous has just missed hitting me.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Money as such is, as Oscar Wilde said, perfectly useless. You can't eat it, drink it, shelter yourself from the cold with… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
After a year or two of keeping my head down and trying to pass myself off as a normal person, I made… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I don't believe in a perfect world. I don't believe it's achievable, and I believe the people who try to achieve it… — 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 Image
And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“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 Image
