Margaret Atwood Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• 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.

• I think of bad news as a huge bird, with the wings of a crow and the face of my Grade Four school teacher, sparse bun, rancid teeth, wrinkly frown, pursed mouth and all, sailing around the world under cover of darkness pleased to be the bearer of ill tidings, carrying a basket of rotten eggs, and knowing- as the sun comes up- exactly where to drop them. On me, for one.

  Margaret Atwood

  Teacher, School, Thinking

  Margaret Atwood (2008). “Moral Disorder and Other Stories”, p.5, Anchor

• They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.

  Margaret Atwood

  Growing Up, School, Years

  Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.40, Anchor

• I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet discovered that I lived in a sort of transparent balloon, drifting over the world without making much contact with it, and that the people I knew appeared to me at a different angle from the one at which they appeared to themselves; and that the reverse was also true. I was smaller to others, up there in my balloon, than I was to myself. I was also blurrier.

  Margaret Atwood

  School, People, Different

• What’s with her?” says the painter. “She’s mad because she’s a woman,” Jon says. This is something I haven’t heard for years, not since high school. Once it was a shaming thing to say, and crushing to have it said about you, by a man. It implied oddness, deformity, sexual malfunction. I go to the living room doorway. “I’m not mad because I’m a woman,” I say. “I’m mad because you’re an asshole.

  Margaret Atwood

  Crush, School, Men

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

• When I finally went to school I had to adjust to other girls and learn their fiendish ways. Having learnt them, I turned them on all and sundry.

  Margaret Atwood

  Girl, School, Way

• I'm from the generation that had the boys' door and the girls' door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

  Margaret Atwood

  Girl, School, Boys

• When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.

  Margaret Atwood

  School, Magazines, Kind

• When I was 16 I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. My main feedback came from my English teacher, Miss Bessie B. Billings, who said, 'I can't understand this at all, dear, so it must be good.

  Margaret Atwood

  Teacher, Encouragement, School

• I did ... learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it's about your friends, a plot element if it's about a character in a novel, and scholarship if it's about John Keats.

  Margaret Atwood

  School, Character, Gossip

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

• I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

  Margaret Atwood

  Summer, Children, Fall

• I was horrified in high school by the fate of the hanged maids at the end of the Odyssey; it seemed unfair to me, even then.

  Margaret Atwood

  School, Fate, Maids

• Poetry isn't written from the idea down. It's written from
  the phrase, line and stanza up, which is different from
  what your teacher taught you to do in school.

  Margaret Atwood

  Teacher, School, Ideas

• I myself discovered many authors through school reading lists and through school anthologies. The positives are: young readers can find the world opening up to them through books they study. The negatives may include bad experiences kids have - if they don't like the book or the teacher, or the way the book is taught.

  Margaret Atwood

  Teacher, Book, Reading

• I meet a lot of readers who first encountered my work in school. And I can only assume there is another group who would run away very fast if they saw me coming, for exactly the same reason. Reading is individual, and not all tastes are alike.

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Reading, School

• 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

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