Margaret Atwood Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.”

“I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.”

“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.”

“We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.”

“You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.”

“Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.”

“If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.”

“Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.”

“I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact.”

“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 supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.”