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Margaret Atwood Quotes

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.

Margaret Atwood

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: November 18, 1939

Topics

Time Century Published Once Form

I'm an only child, and so I over-rely on my friends to lend their support.

Support Child Friends Only Child

It took me eight books to finally be at a point in my career where I could come out with a book and say, 'This is meant to be a funny book,' and we didn't have to make any bones about it.

Funny Me Book Career Meant To Be

We want a culture where it is unacceptable not to share what you know.

John T. Chambers

Culture You Know Want Share Where

I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got locked out of two apartments in one day and I told the story to some friends, one of whom worked in the 'Village Voice' and asked me to turn it into an essay.

Day Me Voice Story Thought Friends

The sexiest part of a woman's body is the back of her kneecaps.

Woman Body Back Her Sexiest Part

I eat pretty much whatever I want. I don't have a strict diet. It's all about cramming in as many calories into my system as I possibly can.

Diet Want Eat Whatever System Much

My girlfriend in eighth grade had been asking her friends when I was going to kiss her. At a dance, my buddy said, 'You better do it now!' I went in for it. I felt like the coolest person on the face of the earth. A week or two later, she broke up with me.

Dance Kiss Me Face Better Friends

Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about.

Experience Writing Stand Finding

Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Bad Read Most Lot Them Scripts

If someone said, 'Jon, we need $250 million a year from now and we can make a dramatic breakthrough for ovarian cancer,' I'd have $250 million in two months. You just work day and night if the cause in your heart is justified.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

Work Heart Day Night Someone Year

Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.

Humor Politics Anything Something

I would say it's not as hard as writing, because when you're a writer, you walk right into the pit all by yourself, but when you're a director, there are at least 80 people who scream, 'Don't do that!' when you make a mistake.

Walk Yourself Mistake People Writing

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