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poetry is where the language is renewed.

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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Poet
Science Fiction Writer
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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Snowman wakes before dawn.
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If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There's nothing foolproof.
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The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
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It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.
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In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught creative writing. We were taught literature and grammar. So no one ever told me I couldn't write both prose and poetry, and I started out writing all the things I still write: poetry, prose fiction - which took me longer to get published - and non-fiction prose.
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You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.
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She knows the rituals, she knows how we're supposed to be behaving...But I think these things are impenetrable and fraudulent, and I can't do them without feeling I'm acting.
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Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
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We should take a lesson from the Irish potato famine: monocultures are vulnerable. Monocultures of any kind are very vulnerable, because one change and you're cooked. So we should be diversifying, wouldn't you say?
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So Crake never remembered his dreams. It's Snowman that remembers them instead. Worse than remembers: he's immersed in them, he'd wading through them, he's stuck in them. Every moment he's lived in the past few months was dreamed first by Crake. No wonder Crake screamed so much.
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Poetry isn't written from the idea down. It's written from the phrase, line and stanza up, which is different from what your teacher taught you to do in school.
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I never say I'm an ist of any kind unless I know how the other person is defining it.
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And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers
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You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.
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There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
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A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.
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What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.
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Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
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