“Roz is telling a story. That's what they will do, increasingly in their lives: tell stories. Tonight their stories will be about… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“All myths are stories, but not all stories are myths: among stories, myths hold a special place.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling. Each form has its pluses and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“In those timeless years between infancy and, say, seven what is has always been: in that way children inhabit the realm of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“[A]nother thing about myths: they gather in and circumscribe their target audience. They make a collection into a collective.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I keep on going with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality -… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“At this dim season of the year we hunger for such tales. Winter's tales, they are. We want to huddle round them,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“But I have already told the beginning, so right now it's the middle. And Zeb is in the middle of the story… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. If you'd wanted… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“[Northrop] Frye was concerned mostly with literary criticism, and myths interested him as structural elements in works of literature. He used the… — 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
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