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Genres aren't closed boxes. S...

Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

A reader can never tell if it...

A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

Our problem right now is that...

Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

A voice is a human gift; it s...

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

The Eskimos had fifty-two nam...

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

Science is a tool, and we inv...

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

Reading and writing are conne...

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

Their mothers had finally cau...

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

Little girls are cute and sma...

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

If I were going to convert to...

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

Time is compressed like the f...

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.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

In the spring, at the end of ...

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

Vampires get the joy of flyin...

Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich, or aristocratic, they shuffle around. They're a group phenomenon, they're not very fast, they're quite sickly. So what's the pleasure of being one?

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

Like many modern poets, I ten...

Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

When I am writing fiction, I ...

When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

As an artist your first loyal...

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

The threat to the planet is u...

The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

Please don't make the mistake...

Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it's neutral.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

I learned to read very early ...

I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

I'm not interested in cutting...

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

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