Top 136 Quotes by Margaret Atwood

About Margaret Atwood

These are some quotes by Canadian author Margaret Atwood Novelist, who was born on November 18, 1939.

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

Margaret Atwood

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.

Margaret Atwood

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

Margaret Atwood

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

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

Margaret Atwood

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

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

Margaret Atwood

I'm the only person you've ever met who has read Longfellow.

I'm the only person you've ever met who has read Longfellow.

Margaret Atwood

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.

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.

Margaret Atwood

The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.

The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.

Margaret Atwood

War is what happens when language fails.

War is what happens when language fails.

Margaret Atwood

Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it's neutral.

Margaret Atwood

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