Quotes by Margaret Atwood

It’s Paradise, but we can’t get out of it. And anything you can’t get out of is Hell.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.