Quotes about Creativity
The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date.
— Margaret Atwood
Forbidden things are open to the imagination.
— Margaret Atwood
What fiendishness went on in kitchens across the country, in the name of providing food!
— Margaret Atwood
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.
— Margaret Atwood
Opening up their sack, the children chorus, "Oh Snowman, what have we found?" They lift out the objects, hold them up as if offering them for sale: a hubcap, a piano key, a chunk of pale-green pop bottle smoothed by the ocean. A plastic BlyssPluss container, empty; a ChickieNobs Bucket O'Nubbins, ditto. A computer mouse, or the busted remains of one, with a long wiry tail.
— Margaret Atwood
It was a wicked game. "Homer," says Snowman, making his way through the dripping-wet vegetation. "The Divine Comedy. Greek statuary. Aqueducts. Paradise Lost. Mozart's music. Shakespeare, complete works. The Brontës. Tolstoy. The Pearl Mosque. Chartres Cathedral. Bach. Rembrandt. Verdi. Joyce. Penicillin. Keats. Turner. Heart transplants. Polio vaccine. Berlioz. Baudelaire. Bartok. Yeats. Woolf.
— Margaret Atwood
The ability to concoct plausible lies is a talent not to be underestimated
— Margaret Atwood
Sex and violence, he thinks now. A lot of the songs were about that. We didn't even notice. We thought it was art.
— Margaret Atwood
How easy it is to invent humanity, for anyone at all. What an available temptation.
— Margaret Atwood
What were prizes but one more level of control imposed on Art by the establishment?
— Margaret Atwood
That is how we writers all started: by reading. We heard the voice of a book speaking to us.
— Margaret Atwood
Think of an adaptation, any adaptation, and some animal somewhere will have thought of it first.
— Margaret Atwood