Famous Quotes

Quotes by Margaret Atwood

• A word after a word after a word is power.
• Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
• Gardening is not a rational act.
• I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.
• I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.
• I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
• 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.
• 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.
• Popular art is the dream of society it does not examine itself.
• Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
• The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
• Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.
• War is what happens when language fails.