Canadian - Novelist | November 18, 1939 -
If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that's it. You're not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You're not going to read that book again.
Margaret Atwood
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Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn't available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It's a habit like all habits.
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Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.
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Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.
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I'm bad at picking heroes.
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The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.
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There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.
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The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the world.
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Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.
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Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.
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If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
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