I feel like cotton candy: sugar and air. Squeeze me and I’d turn into a small sickly damp wad of weeping pinky-red. Margaret Atwood More Quotes by Margaret Atwood More Quotes From Margaret Atwood 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 marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind. Margaret Atwood pain sight mind I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it. Margaret Atwood intense absence feelings poetry is where the language is renewed. Margaret Atwood language poetry-is poetry It is my contention that the process of reading is part of the process of writing, the necessary completion without which writing can hardly be said to exist. Margaret Atwood reading process writing You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself. Margaret Atwood being-jealous jealousy thinking Where do the words go when we have said them? Margaret Atwood said Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page. Margaret Atwood woods plot pages If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Margaret Atwood hungry eating heart Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. Margaret Atwood lines space time I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most. Margaret Atwood inspiring motivational inspirational The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go very quickly. Margaret Atwood fabric democracy citizens Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth. Margaret Atwood medicine sight philosophy Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results. Margaret Atwood judging stupid evil And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional. Margaret Atwood hurts-someone hurt want Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some. Margaret Atwood handmaids-tale change mean Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings. Margaret Atwood diversity imagination humanity The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free. Margaret Atwood philosophical desire giving You cannot teach somebody to write a masterpiece, but you can certainly teach them how to improve their writing skills. And you can teach them that they can make their own voices more effective by being able to communicate more clearly and forcefully. It makes people feel more capable when they can write - for instance to make a request - of a politician - and when they are able to receive a reply. Margaret Atwood politician writing people If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged. Margaret Atwood our-thoughts ifs trials In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. Margaret Atwood garden nature spring
