Canadian - Novelist | November 18, 1939 -
Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
Margaret Atwood
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Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.
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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
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You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.
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For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
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All fat women look the same; they all look 42.
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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.
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I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.
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The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But 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.
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Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
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I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.
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I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.
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