Quote

Now I can see how that can happen. You can fall in love with anybody--a fool, a criminal, a nothing. There are no good rules.

Margaret Atwood

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
Inventor
Literary Critic
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Pedagogue
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
Anybody
Fool
Happen
Fall
Happens
Nothing
Criminal
Good
Criminals
Love
Rules

More quotes by Margaret Atwood

Image
Gravity works in your life, the notion of free will works in your life, however problematic it may at times be.
Margaret Atwood
Image
Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.
Margaret Atwood
Image
Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.
Margaret Atwood
Image
As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter.
Margaret Atwood
Image
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
Margaret Atwood
Image
Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
Margaret Atwood
Image
As William Gibson says, the future is already here but it's lumpy. It's unevenly distributed. Some people are already living this, the ones on low-lying islands off the coast of India are being swept away, you know, it's already happening to some people. We happen to be very lucky so far.
Margaret Atwood
Image
My own view of myself was that I was small and innocuous, a marshmallow compared to the others. I was a poor shot with a 22, for instance, and not very good with an ax. It took me a long time to figure out that the youngest in a family of dragons is still a dragon from the point of view of those who find dragons alarming.
Margaret Atwood
Image
Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia.
Margaret Atwood
Image
You shouldn't do that, said Laura. You could set yourself on fire.
Margaret Atwood
Image
Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.
Margaret Atwood
Image
Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.
Margaret Atwood
Image
You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.
Margaret Atwood
Image
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
Image
But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.
Margaret Atwood
Image
Life's not fair why should I be?
Margaret Atwood
Image
If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending... But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else. Even when there is no one.
Margaret Atwood
Image
In my dreams of this city I am always lost.
Margaret Atwood
Image
This afternoon held that special quality of mournful emptiness I've connected with late Sunday afternoons ever since childhood: the feeling of having nothing to do.
Margaret Atwood
Image
The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that's because I'm doing it wrong.
Margaret Atwood