Margaret Atwood Quotes About Mistakes

Quotes about: Mistakes

• By now you know: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, "Take me to your leaders." Even I--unused to your ways though I am--would never make that mistake. We ourselves have such beings among us, made of cogs, pieces of paper, small disks of shiny metal, scraps of coloured cloth. I do not need to encounter more of them. Instead I will say, "Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers; take me to your deaths." These are worth it. These are what I have come for.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dream, Mistake, Sunset

• The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mistake, Teenage Love, Lust

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.257, Anchor

• Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain.

  Margaret Atwood

  Pain, Mistake, Long

  Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.243, Anchor

• Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it's neutral.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mistake, Thinking, Often Is

• I have never had any problems with editors who wanted me to change my methods or point of view. I pay a lot of attention to editors, but in a different way. They sometimes catch mistakes and help with the order of poems in a book. I do not underestimate them! Indeed, I have been one myself.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mistake, Book, Views

  "Interview with Margaret Atwood". Interview with Raymond H. Thompson, d.lib.rochester.edu. March 25, 1991.

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