Reading Quotes by Margaret Atwood

I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.

— Margaret Atwood

A word after a word after a word is power.

— Margaret Atwood

Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly…

— Margaret Atwood

It is my contention that the process of reading is part of the process of writing, the necessary completion without which writing…

— Margaret Atwood

“It’s always encouraging to be told that it is intellectually acceptable to read the sorts of things that you like to read…

— Margaret Atwood

A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're…

— Margaret Atwood

“Nor did I make any distinctions between great literature and any other kind. I just liked reading.”

— Margaret Atwood

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to…

— Margaret Atwood

Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected.

— Margaret Atwood

More of your brain is involved when reading than it is when you watch television... because you are supplying just about everything...…

— Margaret Atwood

I myself discovered many authors through school reading lists and through school anthologies. The positives are: young readers can find the world…

— Margaret Atwood

“The genres, it is thought, have other designs on us. They want to entertain, as opposed to rubbing our noses in the…

— Margaret Atwood

I meet a lot of readers who first encountered my work in school. And I can only assume there is another group…

— Margaret Atwood

“If writing novels - and reading them - have any redeeming social value, it's probably that they force you to imagine what…

— Margaret Atwood

“Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd…

— Margaret Atwood

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot…

— Margaret Atwood

If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it…

— Margaret Atwood

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will…

— Margaret Atwood

You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book,…

— Margaret Atwood

“What did they want from it? Lechery, smut, confirmation of their worst suspicions. But perhaps some of them wanted, despite themselves, to…

— Margaret Atwood

If we read books all the time we would be very unhealthy, as we would not get any fresh air, exercise, or…

— Margaret Atwood

Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think…

— Margaret Atwood

Reading ... changes you. You aren't the same person after you've read a particular book as you were before, and you will…

— Margaret Atwood