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You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
Inventor
Literary Critic
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.
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Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.
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The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
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We've learned to see the world in gasps.
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Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.
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In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys.
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we lived in the gaps between the stories
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Snowman wakes before dawn.
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I myself have 12 hats and each one represents a different personality. Why just be yourself.
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I don't think it's a question of whether you eat meat. It's a question of what kind of meat, and where it comes from.
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So that’s what art is, for the artist,” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.
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and each of his voices left his body in a different colored soul and floated up towards the sun still singing.
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A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. Think of it as the altar of the Muse Oblivion, to whom you sacrifice your botched first drafts, the tokens of your human imperfection.
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I'm the only person you've ever met who has read Longfellow.
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The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.
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You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.
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The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go very quickly.
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This above all, to refuse to be a victim.
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There's something final about saying you were married once. It's like saying you were dead once. It shuts them up.
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Our biggest technology that we ever, ever invented was articulated language with built-out grammar. It is that that allows us to imagine things far in the future and things way back in the past.
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