Margaret Atwood Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• You think I'm not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you'll burn.

  Margaret Atwood

  Song, Thinking, Trying

  Margaret Atwood (2015). “Morning in the Burned House”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Richard liked to say he picked things up for a song, which was odd, because he never sang. He never even whistled. He was not a musical person.

  Margaret Atwood

  Music, Song, Odd

  Margaret Atwood (2000). “The Blind Assassin”, Random House Large Print Publishing

• Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don't go there to swim, then those young people don't have to find out by trial and error.

  Margaret Atwood

  Song, Uncles, Errors

• For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look and behave; and it's usually these popular ideas, rather than those of medical professionals, that turn up in songs and stories and plays and books.

  Margaret Atwood

  Song, Book, Play

  "Ophelia Has a Lot to Answer For". Speech at the Stratford Festival, September 1997.

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