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Margaret Atwood Quotes

Canadian - Novelist | November 18, 1939 -

If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.

Margaret Atwood

Perfection Never Write Would Word

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

Margaret Atwood

Laugh You Cave Things Really Dismal

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

People Problem Lights Go Know Now

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

Margaret Atwood

Plan You Never Storytelling Human

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.

Margaret Atwood

Football Game Born Gray Hospital Up

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

Margaret Atwood

Optimism Reality Better Realist Than

When you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.

Margaret Atwood

Life Writing Reality Voting View

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

Margaret Atwood

Technology People Mean Digital Only

I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact.

Margaret Atwood

Faith Knowledge Present You Know

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

Margaret Atwood

Reality View Different Simply Points

War is what happens when language fails.

Margaret Atwood

War Language Happens Fails

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.

Margaret Atwood

Funny Short Radio Little Own Your

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