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Margaret Atwood Quotes

Canadian - Novelist | November 18, 1939 -

We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here.

Margaret Atwood

Live People Saying Planet Here Save

Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into a cathedral and look at the decorations of early Christianity, there are vines, animals, creatures and birds thriving all over the stonework.

Margaret Atwood

Walk Roots Birds You Look Early

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

Margaret Atwood

Nature People Think Nice Never Some

Canada was built on dead beavers.

Margaret Atwood

Canada Dead Built

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

Margaret Atwood

Great Literature Everyone Myth Just

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

Margaret Atwood

Thought Now Away Running Away Were

I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.

Margaret Atwood

World Nobody Big Books Following

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

Margaret Atwood

Science Travel Space Science Fiction

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

Margaret Atwood

Writing Process Reason Built Ratio

Gardening is not a rational act.

Margaret Atwood

Gardening Act Rational

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.

Margaret Atwood

Loyalty Art You Artist First Going

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don't go there to swim, then those young people don't have to find out by trial and error.

Margaret Atwood

Dance People Song You Uncle Find

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