Margaret Atwood Quotes about Desire

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The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.

The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.

Margaret Atwood

Philosophical, Giving, Desire

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

expectation isn't the same as desire

Margaret Atwood

Expectations, Desire

Margaret Atwood (2014). “The MaddAddam Trilogy Bundle: The Year of the Flood; Oryx & Crake; MaddAddam”, p.272, Anchor

Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality - by a desire to make the risky trip to the underworld and to bring something or someone back from the dead.

Margaret Atwood

Writing, Desire, Fascination

Margaret Atwood (2002). “Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing”, p.156, Cambridge University Press