Canadian - Novelist | November 18, 1939 -
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?
Margaret Atwood
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Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.
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The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.
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I'm the only person you've ever met who has read Longfellow.
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As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.
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I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.
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I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.
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Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space.
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Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.
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I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.
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Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
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I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.
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