What did Margaret Atwood mean by: About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives. - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada Copy
+ The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Assumption, Writing, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ I’m working on my own life story. I don’t mean I’m putting it together; no, I’m taking it apart. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Stories, Together, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ Though as he’d say, what is ‘belief’ but a willingness to suspend the negatives? Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Belief, Willingness, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Evil, Extremes, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Believe, Treats, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them. Feraz Zeid, October 14, 2023December 29, 2023, Margaret Atwood, Fear, Women, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ There’s something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you’re still alive. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Alive, Hunger, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ I never say I’m an “ist” of any kind unless I know how the other person is defining it. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Defining, Persons, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
There’s no such thing as autobiography, there’s only art and lies - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. - William Ralph Inge Theologian and Anglican priest · England
Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
