I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“It has taken so little time to change our minds, about things like this. Then” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I lie, then, inside the room, under the plaster eye in the ceiling, behind the white curtains, between the sheets, neatly as… — 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
“Is that how we lived, then? But we lived as usual. Everyone does, most of the time. Whatever's going on is usual.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“At the time of my visit, there were only forty women in the Penitentiary. This speaks much for the superior moral training… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The future is in your hands, she resumed. She held her own hands out to us, the ancient gesture that was both… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
He has to find more and better ways of occupying his time. His time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he's been… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
You always think, 'Oh, if only I had a little chalet in the mountains! How great that would be and I'd do… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Stories are no good, not even the short ones, because by the time you get to the second page he's forgotten the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
All writers must go from now to once a upon a time; all must go from here to there; all must descend… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I think the main thing is: Just do it. Plunge in! Being Canadian, I go swimming in icy cold lakes, and there… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I intend to get out of here. It can't last forever. Others have thought such things, in bad times before this, and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“His time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he’s been given a box of time belonging to him alone, stuffed to the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“in the future you’d be able to get your very own pig made, with second copies of everything.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“speech to him was a task, a battle, words mustered behind his beard and issued one at a time, heavy and square… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Their mother died early, and not in a good way. Not that anyone dies in a good way, Tin footnotes to himself,… — 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
