I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The short answer to 'Why do you write' is - I suppose I write for some of the same reasons I read:… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Whatever the scientists may come up with, writers and artists will continue to portray altered mental states, simply because few aspects of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In Shakespeare Saved My Life, [author Laura Bates] said she got better papers from [prisoners] than she got from people in her… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Choice of evils debates always produce extremism - people choose what they hope is the lesser evil, then call it good and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
People talking about politics usually start from the ass end backwards in that they think you have a political agenda, and then… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
This has been her problem all her life: picturing other people's responses. She's too good at it. She can picture the response… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Either I'm alive or I'm dying, she said to Daniel. Please don't feel you can't tell me. Which is it? Which does… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
As William Gibson says, the future is already here but it's lumpy. It's unevenly distributed. Some people are already living this, the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When people in my generation started to write, we did not actually have much of a movie industry, much of a theater… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
You cannot teach somebody to write a masterpiece, but you can certainly teach them how to improve their writing skills. And you… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Just as if you do a mash-up of reality from the point of view of African Americans in this country, you're going… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Walking was not fast enough so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was not fast enough, so… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance. — 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
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