All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate. Margaret Atwood More Quotes by Margaret Atwood More Quotes From Margaret Atwood Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space. Margaret Atwood here-and-there hate space In the evenings there's been thunder, a distant bumping and stumbling, like God on a sullen binge. Margaret Atwood sullen evening weather If you want to be a writer, you should go into the largest library you can find and stand there contemplating the books that have been written. Then you should ask yourself, 'Do I really have anything to add?' If you have the arrogance or the humility to say yes, you will know you have the vocation. Margaret Atwood arrogance humility book The short answer to 'Why do you write' is - I suppose I write for some of the same reasons I read: to live a double life; to go places I haven't been; to examine life on earth; to come to know people in ways, and at depths, that are otherwise impossible; to be surprised. Margaret Atwood depth writing people Books are frozen voices, in the same way that musical scores are frozen music. The score is a way of transmitting the music to someone who can play it, releasing it into the air where it can once more be heard. And the black alphabet marks on the page represent words that were once spoken, if only in the writer's head. They lie there inert until a reader comes along and transforms the letters into living sounds. The reader is the musician of the book: each reader may read the same text, just as each violinist plays the same piece, but each interpretation is different. Margaret Atwood air book lying Some travelers think they want to go to foreign places but are dismayed when the places turn out actually to be foreign. Margaret Atwood want travel thinking More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one. Margaret Atwood letters feels Don't let the bastards grind you down. I repeat this to myself but it conveys nothing. You might as well say, Don't let there be air; or Don't be. I suppose you could say that. Margaret Atwood grind air might Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win. Margaret Atwood winning war thinking Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract. Margaret Atwood age love giving You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave Margaret Atwood behave feels helping Madness is only an amplification of what you already are. Margaret Atwood amplification madness Kill what you can't save what you can't eat throw out what you can't throw out bury What you can't bury give away what you can't give away you must carry with you, it is always heavier than you thought. Margaret Atwood giving He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever. Margaret Atwood throat cutting forever The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that's because I'm doing it wrong. Margaret Atwood going-to-sleep problem sleep Nature full strength is more than we can take, Adam One used to say. It's a potent hallucinogen, a soporific, for the untrained Soul. We're no longer at home in it. We need to dilute it. We can't drink it straight. And God is the same. Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered. Margaret Atwood soul home needs I am not running for mayor yet. But if it comes to be true that people cannot voice an opinion unless they have been elected, then we are no longer in a democracy. Margaret Atwood voice running people Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been. Margaret Atwood get-away frozen dream Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently. Margaret Atwood handmaids-tale clamor irises I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown. Margaret Atwood flawless dancing dance
