Margaret Atwood Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There's nothing foolproof.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Perfect, Waiting

• For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control.... I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go out there and wait for a wave, and when it comes it takes you somewhere and you don't know where it'll go.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dream, Writing, Thinking

  "Margaret Atwood On The Internet" by Charley Locke, therumpus.net. July 3, 2012.

• Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.

  Margaret Atwood

  Waiting, Absence

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.276, Anchor

• It's in Macbeth: "The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon." I seldom have occasion to pull it out, but it's ready and waiting!

  Margaret Atwood

  Waiting, Black, Devil

  "Margaret Atwood Remixes Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” as a Prison Drama". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. September, 2016.

• Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Waiting, Mood

• His mouth is on me, his hands, I can't wait and he's moving, already, love, it's been so long, I'm alive in my skin, again, arms around him, falling and water softly everywhere, never-ending.

  Margaret Atwood

  Moving, Fall, Hands

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.261, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Long, Perfect

• You always think, 'Oh, if only I had a little chalet in the mountains! How great that would be and I'd do all this writing' Except, no, I wouldn't. I'd do the same amount of writing I do now and the rest of the time I'd go stir crazy. If you're waiting for the perfect moment you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There's nothing foolproof.

  Margaret Atwood

  Crazy, Writing, Thinking

• I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born.

  Margaret Atwood

  Self, Waiting, Speech

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• art happens. It happens when you have the craft and the vocation and are waiting for something else, something extra, or maybe not waiting; in any case it happens. It's the extra rabbit coming out of the hat, the one you didn't put there.

  Margaret Atwood

  Art, Waiting, Crafts

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

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