Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood, CC OOnt FRSCis a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award several times, winning twice. In 2001, she was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. She is also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth18 November 1939
CityOttawa, Canada
CountryCanada
Margaret Atwood quotes about
In the desert there is no sign that says, Thou shalt not eat stones.
Potential has a shelf life.
You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.
Freedom, like everything else, is relative.
No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.
The proper study of Mankind is Everything.
The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.
You aren't sick & unhappy only alive & stuck with it.
Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like lips.
When demons are required someone will always be found to supply the part, and whether you step forward or are pushed is all the same in the end.
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.