Margaret Atwood Quotes.
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 anything. There’s nothing foolproof.
There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.
I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
If I waited for perfection… I would never write a word.
If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the Quebec bush. I grew up in and out of the bush, in and out of Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto.
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn’t happen, but other planets.
It is better to hope than to mope!
Myths can’t be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
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 with the narrator, and you can’t, obviously, be all of the narrators in all of your books, or else you’d be a very strange person indeed.
I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.
Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into a cathedral and look at the decorations of early Christianity, there are vines, animals, creatures and birds thriving all over the stonework.
The thing about delirium is you think it’s great, but it actually isn’t.
As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you’re going to say, ‘Where did we come from, what happens next?’ The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.
I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren’t very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.
