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. Margaret Atwood arrivefoolproofmoment Change image and share on social
If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around. Margaret Atwood behavecircumferencelimit Change image and share on social
Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don't go there to swim, then those young people don't have to find out by trial and error. Margaret Atwood actadvantagecroc share on social
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 absoluteextremefamily Change image and share on social
Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what. Margaret Atwood cuneiformearlyowe Change image and share on social
Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in? Margaret Atwood facefitliterary Change image and share on social