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Margaret Atwood Quotes

I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

Margaret Atwood

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Shoes School Child City Woods Year

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Mind Universe Room Contradictions

I grew up a huge jock, a lot of basketball and football. We had a pond in my back yard growing up, and we played a lot of hockey, too. I loved to score goals.

Andy Grammer

Goals Football Growing Up Basketball

I thought: 'It would be great to create a series of clothes that looked like that tree.' Clothes that gave you the green of the leaf and the warm brown of the underside of that leaf and the vanilla colored blossom.

Stanley Marcus

Great Tree Green Leaf Thought Warm

Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Time Sugar Fighter Greatest Ray

I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand on its own.

Siegfried Lenz

Stand Reach Write Over Own Read

Creatively I just enjoy challenging myself in different genres.

Debra Messing

Myself Enjoy Different Just Genres

I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way.

Christina Aguilera

Me Way Out Aggression Come Needs

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

Antony Beevor

Great Potential Fiction Historical

I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.

Anne Lamott

Loved Church Sometimes Grandparents

I am rich because I sell a lot of books, but it's not my drive.

Pierre Dukan

I Am Drive Rich Because Sell Books

If fashion is for everyone, is it fashion? The answer goes far beyond the collections and relates to the speed of fast fashion. There is no longer a time gap between when a small segment of fashion-conscious people pick up a trend and when it is all over the sidewalks.

Suzy Menkes

Time People Fashion Small Speed Up

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

Susan Griffin

Silence Story Speech Much