Quotes from Margaret Atwood

There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.

Yelling is a form of publishing.

I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply a vehicle for private expression, but that it also exists for social examination. I firmly believe this.

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.

Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.

There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.

As God contains all good things, He must also contain a sense of playfulness -- a gift he has shared with Creatures other than ourselves, as witness the tricks Crows play, and the sportiveness of Squirrels, and the frolicking of Kittens.

The minimalist life. Pleasure is an egg. Blessings that can be counted, on the fingers of one hand.

When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too--leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back.

For drinking Life there are two cups: The No Cup is bitter, the Yes Cup is yummy -- Now, which one would you rather have in your tummy?

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.