Margaret Atwood Quotes About Libraries

Quotes about: Libraries

• Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

  Margaret Atwood

  Teacher, Book, School

  "Margaret Atwood: why Wattpad works" by Margaret Atwood, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2012.

• Support your libraries... or else!

  Margaret Atwood

  Support, Library

• Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like a book that was ever finished, /like a locked-up library.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Library, Looks

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Door”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• If you want to be a writer, you should go into the largest library you can find and stand there contemplating the books that have been written. Then you should ask yourself, 'Do I really have anything to add?' If you have the arrogance or the humility to say yes, you will know you have the vocation.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Humility, Arrogance

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

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