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But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
Inventor
Literary Critic
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Pedagogue
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Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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... Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.
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I wish you good writing and good luck. Even if you've already done the good writing, you'll still need the good luck. It's a shark-filled lagoon out there. Cross your fingers and watch your back.
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Without the light, no chance without the dark, no dance.
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I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.
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Blank pages inspire me with terror.
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It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
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Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.
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Teaching other people to write is not something I can do. The only kind of advice I can give them will be trite by its nature. Of course, read a lot, write a lot. The kind of advice I wish I had been given is all of a practical nature, having to do with publishers and agents.
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I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program.
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While in a vintage restaurant...the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into.
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Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing.
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Always good to take a look at the long list for the Mann Booker, for the Commonwealth. It gives you an overview.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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I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.
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If you want to be a writer, you should go into the largest library you can find and stand there contemplating the books that have been written. Then you should ask yourself, 'Do I really have anything to add?' If you have the arrogance or the humility to say yes, you will know you have the vocation.
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Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain.
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No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do too badly by one another, we did as well as most.
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Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.
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We shouldn't have been so scornful we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.
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