Margaret Atwood Quotes about Waiting

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Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing.

Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing.

Margaret Atwood

Writing, Waiting, Mood

Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.

Margaret Atwood

Waiting, Absence

Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.276, Anchor

If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There's nothing foolproof.

Margaret Atwood

Writing, Perfect, Waiting

I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born.

Margaret Atwood

Self, Waiting, Speech

Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

art happens. It happens when you have the craft and the vocation and are waiting for something else, something extra, or maybe not waiting; in any case it happens. It's the extra rabbit coming out of the hat, the one you didn't put there.

Margaret Atwood

Art, Waiting, Crafts

Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984