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Anything Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof…
- Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage…
- You always think, 'Oh, if only I had a little chalet in the mountains! How great that would be and I'd do all this writing'…
- It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else.
- But I keep going on with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear…
- So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to…
- All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. All of them? Sure, he says. Think about it. There's…
- Anything that suffers and dies instead of us is Christ; if they didn't kill birds and fish they would have killed us. The animals die…
- The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing into…
- They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.
- There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.
- In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I pretend to myself…
- When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a…
- As Charles Darwin said,'The economy shown by Nature in her resources is striking,'' says the Spirit. 'All wealth comes from Nature. Without it, there wouldn't…
- All it takes,” said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the…
- It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
- Is anything wrong, dear? the old joke went. No, why? You moved. Just don't move.
- But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.
- 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 overqualified, overspecialized, and…
- By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.
- Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine!
- By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this…
- All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.
More Anything Quotes
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — J. J. Abrams
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — Paul Auster
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price. — Mary Kay Ash
- I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile… — Arthur Ashe