Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood, CC OOnt FRSCis a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award several times, winning twice. In 2001, she was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. She is also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth18 November 1939
CityOttawa, Canada
CountryCanada
I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.
I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.
Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.
The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.
Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.
Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.
If you disagree with your government, that's political. If you disagree with your government that is approaching theocracy, then you're evil.
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.
Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.
Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
I'm bad at picking heroes.
Gardening is not a rational act.