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Margaret Atwood Quotes

When you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.

Margaret Atwood

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: November 18, 1939

Topics

Life Writing Reality Voting View

I don't like doing stand-up, because I don't like standing up.

Jo Brand

Doing Up Standing Because Like

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.

John Dalberg-Acton

Men Find Error Defenders Monstrous

On 'Flash,' you've never seen the last of anybody, no matter what happens to them.

Andrew Kreisberg

You Matter Never Seen Last Happens

I would say, anyone who knows me says they don't envy my life. I've just been through very hard times, yes.

Maye Musk

Life Me My Life Envy Say Hard

I think fashion is repulsive. The whole idea that someone else can make clothing that is supposed to be in style and make other people look good is ridiculous. It sickens me to think that there is an industry that plays to the low self-esteem of the general public. I would like the fashion industry to collapse.

Steve Albini

Good Style People Me Fashion Think

I always go for walks in the countryside.

Matt Bellamy

Go Always Countryside Walks

At the time I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, my doctors told me that I had an incurable illness and they didn't know much about it.

Mary Ann Mobley

Time Me Know Illness Disease Much

When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.

Lorraine Toussaint

Opportunity Art Think You Vanity

With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.

Jon Meacham

History Time Perspective Day Matter

I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to be cajoled.

Dennis Farina

Want Anything Like Talked

I had a group of Hispanic Americans come into my office in 1976 who worked in a Denver packing plant. They had just been fired by their employer who turned around and hired illegal aliens for a lot less money. That had a big impact on me.

Richard Lamm

Money Me Plant Impact Group Office

It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy.

Mark Hoppus

Voice Smoking Doing Quit Ruins