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135 quotes by Margaret Atwood

Website margaretatwood.ca Margaret Eleanor Atwood, CC OOnt FRSC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award several times, winning twice. In 2001 she was...
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You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

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Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your... →

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

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The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a... →

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In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

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When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.

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A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

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Gardening is not a rational act.

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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

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Reality simply consists of different points of view.

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The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'

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

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