27 beautiful quotes by Margaret Atwood. Click any quote to view, download and share it as an image.
← Browse all quotes
Margaret Atwood
“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain...
“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, a...
“Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romanc...
“It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because of what you say can never be exact, you always have to l...
“There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.”
“Modesty is invisibility...Never forget it. To be seen—to beseen—is to be...penetrated. What you must be girls, is impen...
“A word after a word after a word is power.”
“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us mor...
“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the sn...
“How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.”
“Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.”
“I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have...
“When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative stru...
“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the c...
“When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands...
“Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.”
“Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.”
“Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.”
“They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.”
“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
“I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.”
“You fit into melike a hook into an eyea fish hookan open eye”
“All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.All of them?Sure, he sa...
“We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?”
“This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling ...
