Margaret Atwood Quotes & Sayings (Page 13)

“Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.”

“When you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.”

“Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.”

“I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.”

“I'm bad at picking heroes.”

“I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.”

“Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.”

“For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.”

“Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.”

“The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.”