Margaret Atwood Quotes About Giving

• El deseo de ser amado es la última ilusión. Renuncia a él y serás libre.

  Margaret Atwood

  Filosófico, Dar, Deseo

  Margaret Atwood (2012). "Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986", p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

• You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book, because you wrote the thing. You've been backstage. You've seen how the rabbits were smuggled into the hat. Therefore ask a reading friend or two to look at it before you give it to anyone in the publishing business. This friend should not be someone with whom you have a ­romantic relationship, unless you want to break up.

  Margaret Atwood

  Lectura, Libro, Escritura

  "Diez reglas para escribir ficción". www.theguardian.com. 20 de febrero de 2010.

• Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

  Margaret Atwood

  Women, Vanity, Giving

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Cat's Eye”, p.19, Anchor

• Time folds you in its arms and gives you one last kiss, and then it flattens you out and folds you up and tucks you away until it's time for you to become someone else's past time, and then time folds again.

  Margaret Atwood

  Kissing, Past, Giving

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Tent”, p.101, Anchor

• Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.

  Margaret Atwood

  Love, Giving, Age

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.424, Anchor

• Kill what you can't save what you can't eat throw out what you can't throw out bury What you can't bury give away what you can't give away you must carry with you, it is always heavier than you thought.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dar

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “Selected Poems, 1965-1975”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to give up some personal freedom.

  Margaret Atwood

  Giving Up, People, Choices

• La peste se ha cernido sobre la historia de la humanidad. La mayor extinción humana se produjo después de 1492 en América del Norte y del Sur, cuando la tasa de mortalidad fue del 95%, lo cual es enorme. Pero de nuevo, en realidad te estoy dando motivos para el optimismo: Hubo suficientes para continuar. El cinco por ciento que lo consiguió es lo que se necesita para sobrevivir a un cuello de botella, algo que ya hemos vivido antes.

  Margaret Atwood

  América, Dar, Optimismo

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• 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

• Always good to take a look at the long list for the Mann Booker, for the Commonwealth. It gives you an overview.There is so much going on all over the world that it's impossible for one person to keep up. And I can't.

  Margaret Atwood

  Giving, Long, World

  "Unscripted: Margaret Atwood Interview". Interview With Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Teaching other people to write is not something I can do. The only kind of advice I can give them will be trite by its nature. Of course, read a lot, write a lot. The kind of advice I wish I had been given is all of a practical nature, having to do with publishers and agents.

  Margaret Atwood

  Enseñanza, Escritura, Personas

  Fuente: www.washingtonpost.com

• Como artista, tu primera lealtad es hacia tu arte. Si no es así, serás un artista de segunda. No quiero decir que nunca haya solapamientos. Aprendes cosas en un área y las llevas a otra. Pero no es lo mismo dar un discurso contra el racismo que escribir una novela. El objetivo es muy claro en la lucha contra el racismo; tienes razones por las que te opones a él. Pero cuando escribes una novela, no quieres que el lector salga de ella votando sí o no a alguna pregunta. La vida es más complicada que eso. La realidad consiste simplemente en diferentes puntos de vista.

  Margaret Atwood

  Loyalty, Art, Writing

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

• Women are human beings, and human beings are a very mixed lot. I've always been against the idea that women were Victorian angels, that they could do no wrong. I've always thought it was horseshit and does nobody any good. Remember, Lizzie Borden got off largely because the cultural agenda had convinced people that women were morally superior to men, so Lizzie Borden was "incapable" of taking the ax and giving her mother 40 whacks.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mother, Angel, Men

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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