Would be Quotes by Margaret Atwood

Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.

— Margaret Atwood

There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.

— Margaret Atwood

he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.

— Margaret Atwood

If a god showed up every time you put a quarter in the prayer slot it wouldn't be God, it would be…

— Margaret Atwood

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

Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past—the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders.…

— Margaret Atwood

It's a lifelong failing: she has never been prepared. But how can you have a sense of wonder if you're prepared for…

— Margaret Atwood

But thoughtless ingratitude is the armour of the young; without it, how would they ever get through life? The old wish the…

— Margaret Atwood

What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're…

— 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

In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I…

— Margaret Atwood

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

What is it the I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn't yours…

— Margaret Atwood

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

I did not know that 'poetess' was an insult, and that I myself would some day be called one. I did not…

— Margaret Atwood

... all this talking, this rather liquid confessing, was something I didn't think I could ever bring myself to do. It seemed…

— Margaret Atwood

For an instant she felt them, their identities, almost their substance, pass over her head like a wave. At some time she…

— Margaret Atwood

I could see how you could do extreme things for the person you loved. Adam One said that when you loved a…

— Margaret Atwood

In the First World War, people would be receiving letters from loved ones who had been dead for weeks, and they would…

— Margaret Atwood

We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for…

— Margaret Atwood

And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain.…

— Margaret Atwood

Like all twenty-one-year-old poets, I thought I would be dead by thirty, and Sylvia Plath had not set a helpful example. For…

— Margaret Atwood