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Was she in any way like us? thinks Tony. Or, to put it the other way around: Are we in any way like her?


Margaret Atwood

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MARGARET ATWOOD Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the brig...
MARGARET ATWOOD The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by ...
MARGARET ATWOOD There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.
MARGARET ATWOOD The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.
MARGARET ATWOOD Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Secon...
MARGARET ATWOOD Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
MARGARET ATWOOD We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?
MARGARET ATWOOD The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betr...
MARGARET ATWOOD Put yourself in a different room, that's what the mind is for.
MARGARET ATWOOD The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose
MARGARET ATWOOD I think of this as a democratizing device.
MARGARET ATWOOD I'm curious. If someone says 'Don't open that door', I'm right there!
MARGARET ATWOOD The main thing is to keep yourself awake [on writing]
MARGARET ATWOOD For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
MARGARET ATWOOD He's very in depth, on the dark side. He's interested in structure and how things work. After readin...
MARGARET ATWOOD The Orange prize has been pivotal in the careers of many women writers - it's given them that extra ...
MARGARET ATWOOD Just think of it as a very, very long pen.
MARGARET ATWOOD Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked; as I never was when I was not one
MARGARET ATWOOD This above all, to refuse to be a victim.
MARGARET ATWOOD We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.
MARGARET ATWOOD A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
MARGARET ATWOOD Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are hum...
MARGARET ATWOOD They all disowned their parents long ago, the way you are supposed to
MARGARET ATWOOD You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.
MARGARET ATWOOD Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the Un...
MARGARET ATWOOD Any death is stupid from the viewpoint of whoever is undergoing it, Adam One used to say, because no...
MARGARET ATWOOD Also I could hear Amanda’s voice: Why are you being so weak? Love’s never a fair trade. So Jimmy...
MARGARET ATWOOD I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices,...
MARGARET ATWOOD Life is warped. I'm just in sync.
MARGARET ATWOOD I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it...
MARGARET ATWOOD We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves.
MARGARET ATWOOD My parents are like younger, urchinlike brothers and sisters whose faces are dirty and who blurt out...
MARGARET ATWOOD Now we come to forgiveness. Don't worry about forgiving me right now. There are more important thing...
MARGARET ATWOOD Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.
MARGARET ATWOOD Human tool-makers always make tools that will help us get what we want, and what we want hasn't chan...
MARGARET ATWOOD She doesn't think it's a good idea to know the future, because you can hardly ever change it, so why...
MARGARET ATWOOD The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more...
MARGARET ATWOOD