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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.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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I would like to believe this is a story I’m telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it. Those who can believe that such stories are only stories have a better chance. If it’s a story I’m telling, then I have control over the ending. Then there will be an ending, to the story, and real life will come after it. I can pick up where I left off.
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I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.
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Screw poetry, it’s you I want, your taste, rain on you, mouth on your skin.
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As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter.
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Modesty is invisibility... Never forget it. To be seen - to be seen - is to be... penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.
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Thy only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die, John and Mary die, John and Mary die.
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Even in the tragedies, [William] Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk like aristocrats. He puts in idiots and fools.
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The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to throw it out?
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For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
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I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.
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There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.
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You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain.
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Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out.
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