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My brother and I were both teenage writers, and he was, I have to say, better than I was, but he went into science, and I went into writing.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
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Non-Fiction Writer
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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and each of his voices left his body in a different colored soul and floated up towards the sun still singing.
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You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.
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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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The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.
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We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.
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Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters.
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There's something final about saying you were married once. It's like saying you were dead once. It shuts them up.
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In the evenings there's been thunder, a distant bumping and stumbling, like God on a sullen binge.
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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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You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This is what I feel like: this sound of glass. I feel like the word shatter. I want to be with someone.
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If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?
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We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.
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No male writer is likely to be asked to sit on a panel addressing itself to the special problems of a male writer.
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You're dead, Cordelia.' No I'm not. 'Yes you are. You're dead. Lie down.
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A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
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Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
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You can think clearly only with your clothes on.
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My parents were gardeners themselves, and perforce they used environmental techniques because it was during the war, and you didn't have the new sorts of chemicals.
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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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Choice of evils debates always produce extremism - people choose what they hope is the lesser evil, then call it good and demonize the other choice. It will be a challenge for your generation to synthesize - to move beyond Us versus Them, to We.
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