Quotes By Margaret Atwood
The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.
Margaret Atwood
I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.
Margaret Atwood
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
Margaret Atwood
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
Margaret Atwood
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
Margaret Atwood
I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.
Margaret Atwood
The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.
Margaret Atwood
Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
Margaret Atwood
If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't.
Margaret Atwood
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Margaret Atwood
Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.
Margaret Atwood