Margaret Atwood

To pronounce the name of the dead is to make them live again. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#egyptian-mythology #death

The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#art

An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#self-pity #money

[A]nother thing about myths: they gather in and circumscribe their target audience. They make a collection into a collective. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#imagination

It’s always encouraging to be told that it is intellectually acceptable to read the sorts of things that you like to read anyway. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#imagination

All myths are stories, but not all stories are myths: among stories, myths hold a special place. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#imagination

I thought my heart was pure. We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we're about to do something harmful, to someone else. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#revenge #motivational

All observations of life are harsh, because life is. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#life

Where were we? I've forgotten. He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever. Right. Yes. The usual choices. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#love #love

A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#author #relevance #writer #age