Margaret Atwood Quotes About Teachers

Quotes about: Teachers

• 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

• 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

• 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

• After a year or two of keeping my head down and trying to pass myself off as a normal person, I made contact with the five other people at my university who were interested in writing; and
  through them, and some of my teachers, I discovered that there was a whole subterranean Wonderland of Canadian writing that was going on just out of general earshot and sight.

  Margaret Atwood

  Teacher, Writing, Two

  "Margaret Atwood : Writing Philosophy". Waterstone's Poetry Lecture, Delivered At Hay On Wye, canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca. June 1995.

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