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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
Inventor
Literary Critic
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Pedagogue
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Science Fiction Writer
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.
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If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending... But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else. Even when there is no one.
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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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Don't eat anything you aren't prepared to kill. Don't kill anything you aren't prepared to eat.
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Marshall McLuhan is absolutely right, we are always looking in the rear view mirror.
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Laughter may instruct but it may also conceal, defending the joker against anger and retaliation: a game is only a game.
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Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds of roughing it.
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Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on bones without them there'd be no stories.
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Even in the tragedies, [William] Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk like aristocrats. He puts in idiots and fools.
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Tell what is yours to tell. Let others tell what is theirs.
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Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
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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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Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.
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As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter.
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Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.
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I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.
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I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.
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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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I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the Quebec bush. I grew up in and out of the bush, in and out of Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto.
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I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.
Margaret Atwood