Margaret Atwood

"Read everything. You never know what you will want to write."

"We are made of chemicals, but so are stars and flowers."

"The universe doesn't care about your plans."

"Every epoch has its disease, its anxiety."

"Human beings are pattern-recognition animals."

"The wilderness will not feed us. We must feed ourselves."

"There's no such thing as a free gift."

"Nothing is ever simple for long."

"Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast."

"You're never going to fill every part of yourself."

"Small acts of resistance are still acts of resistance."

"The future is in the past."

"Killing is not something one does well or badly. One simply kills or does not."

"A writer is a person who has taught their mind to misbehave."

"We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones."

"Feet, what do I need you for? I have wings to fly."

"You cannot avoid flattery by sincerity."

"The truth is a kind of force."

"When the time comes to die, make sure you're not the only one."

"Suicide is a form of self-awareness."

"God is not the end of wisdom."

"You can't create anything if you're not willing to expose yourself."

"We are not responsible for all the things that happen to us."

"Forgive and forget, that's what we're supposed to do."

"Writing is a form of prayer."

"The story of your life is not your life, it is your story."

"Freedom comes from nowhere in particular."

"Remember that you are an acceptable form of human."

"The world is full of people who will hurt you."

"You have more freedom than you think you do."