black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.

Margaret Atwood

I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Inspirational Inspire Motivational
I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Age Literature Young
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Fiction Planet Space
A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and dignity-destroying precipice you were walking along, you would switch into actuarial sciences immediately.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Dignity Ignorance Poetry
How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation’s mighty seed – For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Greed Lust Men
we lived in the gaps between the stories
MARGARET ATWOOD

Gap Handmaid Stories Tale
The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Bears Close Kind Way
These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Alive Fact Prayer
Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Harvard Literature Subject
I walk away from him. It’s enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It’s like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Able Away People Walk
Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Emotion Love Piss
Canada was built on dead beavers.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Beaver Built Country People
I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Air Love Sleep Unnoticed
There is no fool like an educated fool.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Educated Emotional Fool People
I’m from the generation that had the boys’ door and the girls’ door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Boy Girl School
It’s evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Color Dust Water

I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Margaret Atwood Quotes