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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
Inventor
Literary Critic
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Pedagogue
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye
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I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program.
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EXTINCTATHON, Monitored by MaddAddam. Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones. Do you want to play?
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I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.
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I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself.
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I don't think it's a question of whether you eat meat. It's a question of what kind of meat, and where it comes from.
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There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.
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He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.
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I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.
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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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No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.
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Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
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Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.
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That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.
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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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Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized.
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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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Every novel is-at the beginning-the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space.
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...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger.
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The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner.
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