Tag: Margaret Atwood

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

If you’re waiting for the perfect moment, you’ll never write a thing because it will never arrive.
Margaret Atwood

Create a flawless character and you create an insufferable one.
Margaret Atwood

Reading and writing like everything else, improve with practice.
Margaret Atwood

A word after a word after a word is power.
Margaret Atwood