Margaret Atwood Quotes

Maybe we all just wanted someone to believe in. That's all each of us wanted, and it should be so simple, but it never was simple.

It occurred to me that everyone’s story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk.

The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.

Perhaps they needn't even believe - it was enough that they needed angels, and the angels would return gladly.

No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.

As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.

Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.

A man's physical hunger does not prove that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on a raft in the Atlantic. But surely a man's hunger does prove that he comes of a race which repairs its body by eating and inhabits a world where eatable substances exist. In the same way, though I do not believe (I wish I did) that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.

Believe the best of everybody.

No,' Ben says, 'but I believe it. I believe it for you. And that's why it's hope.

We opened our hearts. Hear me, heal me, save me, believe me.

Writing is one of the most ancient forms of prayer. To write is to believe communication is possible that other people are good, that you can awaken their generosity and their desire to do better.

Often, the stories are very much like trust falls. You fall, and you hope the story's going to catch you.

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.

We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens.

Because there was just one thing that I had to believe to be able to live - I had to know that he existed. That was all. Everything else I could endure. So long as he existed.

I have great faith in God. Without faith, I don't know how I would have been able to get through what I've been through.

I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the trumpet you return.

Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.

The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family reunion, and there's 400 people there, everybody comes up and tells me their stories, right? And I think that when you're a good listener, and you can imagine how someone's talking, dialogue is your key friend, is it not?

No story lives unless someone wants to listen.

Without faith, I don't think I'd be here.