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Work Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on…
- It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised…
- 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…
- I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself.
- 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.…
- There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is…
- Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
- I tried to visualize my jealousy as a yellowy-brown cloud boiling around inside me, then going out through my nose like smoke and turning into…
- I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age to see Snow…
- We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach