Margaret Atwood Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

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

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Age

  Margaret Atwood (1988). “Cat's eye”, Doubleday, 1989

• She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory.

  Margaret Atwood

  Memories, Anecdotes, Belief

  Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.121, Anchor

• Toast was a pointless invention from the Dark Ages. Toast was an implement of torture that caused all those subjected to it to regurgitate in verbal form the sins and crimes of their past lives. Toast was a ritual item devoured by fetishists in the belief that it would enhance their kinetic and sexual powers. Toast cannot be explained by any rational means. Toast is me. I am toast.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mean, Dark, Past

  "Oryx and Crake". Book by Margaret Atwood, 2003.

• Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?

  Margaret Atwood

  Belief, Willingness

  Margaret Atwood (2013). “MaddAddam: Book 3 of The MaddAddam Trilogy”, p.228, Anchor

• I'm not sure I really am a Humanist. I describe myself as a rigorous agnostic, which means that you cannot declare as a matter of material truth something that is in fact a matter of spiritual belief.

  Margaret Atwood

  Spiritual, Mean, Facts

  "Margaret Atwood Ruins a Marriage, Talks Memes, Politics in Reddit AMA". Interview with Jia Tolentino, jezebel.com. December 30, 2014.

• Keep the faith. Whatever that may be. Don't get too depressed yet, because I have a belief in America being very diverse and ornery, and containing a lot of people who are not going to roll over very easily for a totalitarian dictatorship. That is what I think.

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, People, Belief

  "Margaret Atwood answers the question: Is 'The Handmaid's Tale' a feminist book?". www.latimes.com. April 24, 2017.

• When people in my generation started to write, we did not actually have much of a movie industry, much of a theater scene, much of a television industry or other creative outlets. But we had a lot of aspiring writers. All that has changed. We now have a movie industry, television industry and lots of theater. But we have retained a large contingent of writers and a dedicated readership. The larger number of people in society who value writing, the larger number of good writers will be produced. That's my belief. It raises the bar.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, People, Creative

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact.

  Margaret Atwood

  Facts, Different, Belief

  "Narrative Magazine’s Friday Feature: Margaret Atwood Interview, In Which She Talks About “A Handmaid’s Tale”,“The Year Of The Flood” And Having Fun". Interview with Jo Scott-Coe, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

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