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.

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.

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.

Margaret Atwood

If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.

If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.

Margaret Atwood

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

Margaret Atwood

A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.

A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.

Margaret Atwood

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

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

Margaret Atwood

Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn't available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It's a habit like all habits.

Margaret Atwood

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

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

Margaret Atwood

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

Margaret Atwood

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

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

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