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.

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

Margaret Atwood

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

Margaret Atwood

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.

Margaret Atwood

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

I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That's science fiction; it isn't going to happen.

I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That's science fiction; it isn't going to happen.

Margaret Atwood

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.

Margaret Atwood

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

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

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

Margaret Atwood

If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. 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.

Margaret Atwood

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