A reader can never tell if it’s a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you’re reading it, they’re the same. It’s a thimble. It’s in the book. Margaret Atwood Read Quote
Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don’t know the plot. They don’t know their own individual plot… they don’t know what’s going to happen to them. Margaret Atwood Read Quote
The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong. Margaret Atwood Read Quote
I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television – there wasn’t a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing. Margaret Atwood Read Quote
When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. Margaret Atwood Read Quote
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. Margaret Atwood Read Quote
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. Margaret Atwood Read Quote
When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical – one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float. Margaret Atwood Read Quote
I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school. Margaret Atwood Read Quote
The story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies. Margaret Atwood Read Quote