Margaret Atwood quotes - page 17

I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance. (Margaret Atwood)
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that. View quote
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When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely. View quote
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All fat women look the same; they all look 42. View quote
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I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn't write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do. View quote
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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that's it. You're not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You're not going to read that book again. View quote
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Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game. View quote
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There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication. View quote
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Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself. View quote
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Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they don't know what's going to happen to them. View quote
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I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look up something in it; very handy for that - you can have it just the next minute; you can press the button and just have it. (Margaret Atwood)
Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel. View quote
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Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops. View quote
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. View quote
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If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental argument for it. View quote
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I'm from the generation that had the boys' door and the girls' door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one. View quote
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Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything. View quote
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I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka. View quote
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There is good and mediocre writing within every genre. View quote
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You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. View quote
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Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth. (Margaret Atwood)
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me. View quote
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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. View quote
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