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Idea Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn't write.…
- I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed hats women used…
- No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic. No more…
- At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down.
- Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said…
- He has to find more and better ways of occupying his time. His time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he's been given a box…
- Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on…
- No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well.…
More Idea Quotes
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
- The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that… — Chinua Achebe
- I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew… — Chinua Achebe
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden