When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I was horrified in high school by the fate of the hanged maids at the end of the Odyssey; it seemed unfair… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When I finally went to school I had to adjust to other girls and learn their fiendish ways. Having learnt them, I… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I'm from the generation that had the boys' door and the girls' door when you went to school, and you got in… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I did ... learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it's about… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Poetry isn't written from the idea down. It's written from the phrase, line and stanza up, which is different from what your… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When I was 16 I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. My main feedback came from my English teacher,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I meet a lot of readers who first encountered my work in school. And I can only assume there is another group… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught "creative writing." We were taught literature and grammar.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I think of bad news as a huge bird, with the wings of a crow and the face of my Grade Four… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I myself discovered many authors through school reading lists and through school anthologies. The positives are: young readers can find the world… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
What’s with her?” says the painter. “She’s mad because she’s a woman,” Jon says. This is something I haven’t heard for years,… — 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
