“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.”

—  Margaret Atwood

Last update Sept. 1, 2022. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the sn…" by Margaret Atwood?
Margaret Atwood photo
Margaret Atwood348
Canadian writer 1939

Related quotes

Peter Greenaway photo

“Perhaps. I need writing. Don't ask me why -- just take out your pen and write your name on my arm -- go on.”

Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director

Jerome and Nagiko
The Pillow Book

Abbie Hoffman photo

“It's perhaps fitting that I write this introduction in jail.”

Abbie Hoffman book Steal This Book

Introduction.
Steal This Book (1971)

Sadegh Hedayat photo

“My life appeared to me as unnatural, uncertain and incredible as the design on the pencase I am using at this moment. It seems that a painter who has been possessed, perhaps a perfectionist, has painted the cover of this pencase. Often, when I look at this design, it seems familiar; perhaps it is because of this design that I write or perhaps this design makes me write.”

Sadegh Hedayat book The Blind Owl

The Blind Owl

Gene Wolfe photo

“Now I must, I suppose, explain why I have been writing this account. […] I have written to disclose myself to myself, and I am writing now because I will, I know, sometime read what I am now writing and wonder. Perhaps by the time I do, I will have solved the mystery of myself, or perhaps I will no longer care to know the solution.”

Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) American science fiction and fantasy writer

Fiction, "The Fifth Head of Cerberus", Orbit 10 (1972)

Lois McMaster Bujold photo

“One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including — or perhaps especially — the failures.”

Lois McMaster Bujold (1949) Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA

"Putting It Together" p. 6
The Vorkosigan Companion (2008)

A.A. Milne photo

“So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.”

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

Nadine Gordimer photo

“Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.”

Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014) South african Nobel-winning writer

Interview with Jannika Hurwitt, published in Paris Review, 88 (Summer 1983) 82–127; reprinted in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Sixth Series (1984) (the interview took place in two parts: fall 1979/spring 1980)

George Saintsbury photo

“When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.”

George Saintsbury (1845–1933) British literary critic

Source: A Last Vintage, p. 172

Robert E. Howard photo

“… you speak of Venarium familiarly. Perhaps you were there?"
"I was," grunted [Conan]. "I was one of the horde that swarmed over the hills. I hadn't yet seen fifteen snows, but already my name was repeated about the council fires.”

Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) American author

"Beyond the Black River" (1935)

Related topics