Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Science is not something that exists apart from human beings. It's one of the things we do as human beings, and we… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
My brother and I were both teenage writers, and he was, I have to say, better than I was, but he went… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
My family was scientifically inclined: My brother did turn into a neurophysiologist, and I almost became a scientist myself. I could have… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Science fiction went through a period that was mostly object-oriented or inventions for distant galaxies.But when we cracked the genetic DNA code,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I define science fiction as fiction in which things happen that are not possible today - that depend, for instance, on advanced… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
All it takes,” said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Some will tell you Love is merely chemical, my friends, said Adam one. Of course it is chemical: where would any of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Whatever the scientists may come up with, writers and artists will continue to portray altered mental states, simply because few aspects of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Human tool-makers always make tools that will help us get what we want, and what we want hasn't changed for thousands of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Anything that doesn't fit this mode has been shoved into an area of lesser solemnity called 'genre fiction,' and it is here… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I'm fine," said Pilar, "for the moment. And the moment is the only time we can be fine in.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Mary: Some call this "Eve's curse," but I think that is stupid because the real curse of Eve was having to put up with… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The birds were singing around me, but I reflected that the very birds were strangers to me, for I did not even know their… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Strange how we decorate pain. These ribbons, for instance, and the small hard teardrops of blood. Who are they for? Do we think the… — margaret atwood Copy Share Image
I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd never thought… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Simon walks back to the house alone. The night is clear and warm, with a moon, almost full, enclosed in a nimbus of mist;… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Every time the women appear, Snowman is astonished all over again. They're every known colour from the deepest black to whitest white, they're various… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
