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Book Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.
- Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL…
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack…
- 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 the same. It's…
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look…
- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,' or 'Nobody under…
- If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick up a book with spaceships…
- If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your…
- If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author…
- The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the…
- I think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write.
- I never have [suffered writer’s block], although I’ve had books that didn’t work out. I had to stop writing them. I just abandoned them. It…
- You most likely need a thesaurus, a rudimentary grammar book, and a grip on reality. This latter means: there's no free lunch. Writing is work.…
- You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book, because you wrote…
- I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
- Perhaps they were looking for passion; perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parcel - a gift box at the bottom of…
- Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to land,…
- Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's going to publish…
- We all know that a book is not really a person. It isn’t a human being. But if you are a lover of books as…
- I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.
- Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like a book that…
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- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
- Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood