59 Margaret Atwood Quotes for You to Enjoy

Margaret Atwood

Canadian Novelist

Born: Nov 18, 1939

Because People Science Think Writing You

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Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich, or aristocratic, they shuffle around. They're a group phenomenon, they're not very fast, they're quite sickly. So what's the pleasure of being one? Margaret Atwood

Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything. Margaret Atwood

Family Money Own Monster Unless Everything Extreme Kind Would Only Absolute Price Put Most Within Person Measure Things

The thing about delirium is you think it's great, but it actually isn't. Margaret Atwood

Great You Think About Delirium Actually Thing

You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting. Margaret Atwood

You Women People Somewhere Power Tell Would Point Could Point Of View Tends Pick Pyramid Tale Mistakenly Felt Narrator Male Oppressed Women Are Itself Handmaid Interesting Organise View

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one. Margaret Atwood

Mother Never Because Am Shocked Being Capable

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. Margaret Atwood

Older Am Years Wanted Now

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies. Margaret Atwood

Water Too Odyssey Hold Story Many

I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi. Margaret Atwood

Age Gordon Sci-Fi Up Flash Golden Golden Age Grew

I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. Margaret Atwood

World Big Books Following Puts Nobody Them Ever Among

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth. Margaret Atwood

Great Myth Everyone Once Great Literature Read Just Literature

I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka. Margaret Atwood

Fond Poe Ray Ray Bradbury Edgar Very Kafka Warped Early

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre. Margaret Atwood

Good Writing Every Genre Within Mediocre

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel. Margaret Atwood

Truth You Science Truth Is Other Tool Tools Our About Implement Feel Know How Fiction Use Necessarily

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear. Margaret Atwood

Science Fear Never Feel Makes Want Which Mean Things

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 up something in it; very handy for that - you can have it just the next minute; you can press the button and just have it. Margaret Atwood

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 25.' With my books, it always has been, and continues to be, spread right across the board, and I think the operative term is 'reader.' Margaret Atwood

You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up. Margaret Atwood

You Hers Out Would Examine No Question Point Point Of View He His Question Up Century View Who Whole Credit Credit Cards Cards

I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me. Margaret Atwood

Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems. Margaret Atwood

Later Immediate Favor Echoes Poems Poets Tend Conceal Like Lines Modern Middle Rhymes Placed Placing Them Avoid Many

Reality simply consists of different points of view. Margaret Atwood

Reality Consists Points Simply Different View

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely. Margaret Atwood

You Laugh Cave Dismal Really Things

All fat women look the same; they all look 42. Margaret Atwood

Women Look Same Fat

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