Margaret Atwood Quotes About Habits

Quotes about: Habits

• 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. Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dream, Moving, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Feb 14, 2012

• Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom.

  Margaret Atwood

  Lying, Flower, Recovery

  Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.276, Anchor

• Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn't available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It's a habit like all habits.

  Margaret Atwood

  Reading, Communication, Mean

• The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence but a long-winded sentence with a lot of unnecessary subordinate clauses, as he was soon in the habit of quipping during Happy Hour pickup time at the local campus bars and pubs. He couldn’t say he was looking forward to it, this rest-of-his-life.

  Margaret Atwood

  Long, Bars, Looking Forward

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “Oryx And Crake”, p.106, Hachette UK

• Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share or censure? But laxity in one area may lead to derangement in all.

  Margaret Atwood

  May, Slides, Eating

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.365, Anchor

• I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it all seems just as quaint, from here, and I am just as obsessive about it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Past, Habit, Quaint

  "The Handmaid's Tale". Book by Margaret Atwood, 1985.

• I doubt that Canada will be seen forever on the international stage as Mr/s Boring Niceperson, as has been the habit.

  Margaret Atwood

  Forever, Doubt, Canada

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author with the narrator, and you can't, obviously, be all of the narrators in all of your books, or else you'd be a very strange person indeed.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Character, People

  "Double bluff". Interview with Katharine Viner, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2000.

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