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It is my contention that the process of reading is part of the process of writing, the necessary completion without which writing can hardly be said to exist.
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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Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.
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I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself.
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Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed? How much is too much, how far is too far?
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She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.
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All writers must go from now to once a upon a time all must go from here to there all must descend to where the stories are kept all must take care not to be captured and held immobile by the past.
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More of your brain is involved when reading than it is when you watch television... because you are supplying just about everything... you're a creator.
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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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Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar.
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He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.
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It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised biography — but if you write your biography, it's equally assumed you're lying your head off.
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