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
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You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.
I'm the only person you've ever met who has read Longfellow.
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.
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.
Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.
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.
Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.
The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner.
...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger.
Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like lips.
When demons are required someone will always be found to supply the part, and whether you step forward or are pushed is all the same in the end.