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The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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I think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write.
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You can pretty much trace when the big individual indebtedness kicked in, and it was when the credit card became generally available.
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But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.
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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
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The short answer to 'Why do you write' is - I suppose I write for some of the same reasons I read: to live a double life to go places I haven't been to examine life on earth to come to know people in ways, and at depths, that are otherwise impossible to be surprised.
Margaret Atwood
I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed hats women used to wear at some period during the old days: hats like enormous halos, festooned with fruit and flowers, and the feathers of exotic birds hats like an idea of paradise, floating just above the head, a thought solidified.
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You shouldn't do that, said Laura. You could set yourself on fire.
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He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation.
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He’d developed a strangely tender feeling towards such words, as if they were children abandoned in the woods and it was his duty to rescue them.
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All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate.
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Toast is me. I am toast.
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I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.
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My parents were gardeners themselves, and perforce they used environmental techniques because it was during the war, and you didn't have the new sorts of chemicals.
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My favorite author's question of all time - because it's so simple to answer ... 'Is your hair really like that, or do you get it done?
Margaret Atwood
Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave - The water below is as dark as the grave, And maybe you'll sink in your little blue boat - It's hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat
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Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.
Margaret Atwood
I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.
Margaret Atwood
The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand you must see your left hand erasing it.
Margaret Atwood
A lot of the stuff Kafka said he thought was hilariously funny.
Margaret Atwood
I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together no, I'm taking it apart. If you'd wanted the narrative line you should have asked earlier, when I still knew everything and was more than willing to tell. That was before I discovered the virtues of scissors, the virtues of matches.
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