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Write Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.
- 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…
- 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 think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write.
- I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.
- Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever.
- You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain.
- 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…
- 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'…
- The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.
- I write as if I've lived a lot of things I haven't lived.
- Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.
- The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person,…
- Ah men, why do you want all this attention? I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutely necessary. What do…
- Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to…
- Every ending is arbitrary, because the end is where you write The end. A period, a dot of punctuation, a point of stasis. A pinprick…
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- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
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