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There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
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Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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You most likely need a thesaurus, a rudimentary grammar book, and a grip on reality. This latter means: there's no free lunch. Writing is work. It's also gambling. You don't get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but ­essentially you're on your own. Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don't whine.
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Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.
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There is so much going on all over the world that it's impossible for one person to keep up. And I can't.
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Don't let the bastards grind you down.
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Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.
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EXTINCTATHON, Monitored by MaddAddam. Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones. Do you want to play?
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We do not know how we'd behave. But a lot of people facing fascism didn't become fascists. I don't happen to believe that we are all monsters.
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The scroll is coming back (Twitter is a scroll.)
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Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?
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It's in Macbeth: The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon. I seldom have occasion to pull it out, but it's ready and waiting!
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He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a performance, for my benefit, to show me he's up-to-date? Maybe men shouldn't have been told about their own humanity. It's only made them uncomfortable. It's only made them trickier, slier, more evasive, harder to read.
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Don't eat anything you aren't prepared to kill. Don't kill anything you aren't prepared to eat.
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he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.
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for me the novel is a social vehicle, it reflects society.
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I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.
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Screw poetry, it’s you I want, your taste, rain on you, mouth on your skin.
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When I finally went to school I had to adjust to other girls and learn their fiendish ways. Having learnt them, I turned them on all and sundry.
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I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself.
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Moira was like an elevator with open sides. She made us dizzy.
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That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.
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