Margaret Atwood Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

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

  Margaret Atwood

  Reality, Answers, Literature

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Jul 13, 2011

• The central symbol for Canada-and this based on numerous instances of its occurrence in both English and French Canadian literature-is undoubtedly Survival, la Survivance.

  Margaret Atwood

  Survival, Literature, Canada

• What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else. Literature is not only a mirror; it is also a map, a geography of the mind. Our literature is one such map, if we can learn to read it as our literature, as the product of who and where we have been. We need such a map desperately, we need to know about here, because here is where we live. For the members of a country or a culture, shared knowledge of their place, their here, is not a luxury but a necessity. Without that knowledge we will not survive.

  Margaret Atwood

  Country, Mirrors, Luxury

• Literature is not only a mirror; it is a map, a geography of the mind.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mirrors, Mind, Literature

• In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught "creative writing." We were taught literature and grammar. So no one ever told me I couldn't write both prose and poetry, and I started out writing all the things I still write: poetry, prose fiction - which took me longer to get published - and non-fiction prose.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, School, Prose And Poetry

• The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

  Margaret Atwood

  Literature, Great Literature, Myth

• My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.

  Margaret Atwood

  Brother, Gone, Literature

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

• Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

  Margaret Atwood

  Literature, Harvard, Subjects

  "Margaret Atwood interview: 'Go three days without water and you don't have any human rights. Why? Because you're dead'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2010.

• When we're good, we're very, very good, and when we're bad, we're horrid. This is not news, because we're so much more inventive and we have two hands, the left and the right. That is how we think. It's all over our literature, and it's all over the way we arrange archetypes, the good version, the bad version, the god, the devil, the Abel, the Cain, you name it. We arrange things in pairs like that because we know about ourselves.

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, Two, Hands

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• 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.

  Margaret Atwood

  Believe, Expression, Novelists

• I enjoyed teaching. I liked the students. Having to formulate my ideas about literature made them clearer. I did not particularly enjoy the more bureaucratic aspects of the job. However, if you are teaching fervently, your energy and time are used up at a great rate.

  Margaret Atwood

  Teaching, Energy, Literature

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.

  Margaret Atwood

  Age, Literature, Young

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