Margaret Atwood Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• You most likely need a thesaurus, a rudimentary grammar book, and a grip on reality. This latter means: there's no free lunch. Writing is work. It's also gambling. You don't get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but ­essentially you're on your own. Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don't whine.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Writing, Mean

  "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

• You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.

  Margaret Atwood

  Attitude, Reality, Trying

  "Attitude". Margaret Atwood's commencement address at the University of Toronto, Canada, www.humanity.org. June 14, 1983.

• 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

• Reality simply consists of different points of view.

  Margaret Atwood

  Reality, Views, Different

  Interview with Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. July/August 1997.

• When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice... As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have, in the imaginative context, two versions, a positive and a negative... If you spill your milk you're left with a glass which is either half empty or half full... You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspirational, Graduation, Art

  "Attitude". Margaret Atwood's commencement address at the University of Toronto, Canada, www.humanity.org. June 14, 1983.

• Craziness was considered funny, like all other things that were in reality frightening and profoundly shameful.

  Margaret Atwood

  Reality, Craziness, Frightening

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Cat's Eye”, p.443, Anchor

• As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist. I don't mean there's never any overlap. You learn things in one area and bring them into another area. But giving a speech against racism is not the same as writing a novel. The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.

  Margaret Atwood

  Loyalty, Art, Writing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• When I was young I believed that "nonfiction" meant "true." But you read a history written in, say, 1920 and a history of the same events written in 1995 and they're very different. There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.

  Margaret Atwood

  Reality, Different

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

  Margaret Atwood

  Optimistic, Mean, Reality

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Jul 21, 2016

• There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.

  Margaret Atwood

  Reality, May

  Interview with Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. July, 1997.

• If you DJ reality, that is, if you make a mash-up of actual reality, you're going to end up with something that inevitably people will say, "This is feminist." Because you cannot avoid that.

  Margaret Atwood

  Reality, People, Feminist

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.

  Margaret Atwood

  Reality, Thinking, Play

• Just as if you do a mash-up of reality from the point of view of African Americans in this country, you're going to end up with something that will say, "This is Black Lives Matter." It's not that people necessarily have started out from that premise. But if you're looking at reality, that will be the result because that is reality.

  Margaret Atwood

  Country, Reality, People

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

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