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Screw poetry, it’s you I want, your taste, rain on you, mouth on your skin.
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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Science Fiction Writer
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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Once a month I wake in the night, slippery with terror. I'm afraid, not because there's someone in the room, in the dark, in the bed, but because there isn't. I'm afraid of the emptiness, which lies beside me like a corpse.
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Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back it was always there in oral storytelling. Each form has its pluses and its minuses.
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It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even if they purport to be about rabbits or robots.
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I feel like the word shatter.
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poetry is where the language is renewed.
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I write as if I've lived a lot of things I haven't lived.
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If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say.
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For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
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The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make the hard-hearted feel. Make the deaf hear.
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There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.
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A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.
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I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology goes down, the immediate fallback position is either that technology just before that or one several technologies back.
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Fear has a smell, as love does.
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If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental argument for it.
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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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art happens. It happens when you have the craft and the vocation and are waiting for something else, something extra, or maybe not waiting in any case it happens. It's the extra rabbit coming out of the hat, the one you didn't put there.
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Support your libraries... or else!
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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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Without the light, no chance without the dark, no dance.
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Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.
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