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Very Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.
- I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program.
- I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not…
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more…
- 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…
- 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…
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look…
- If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author…
- Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted…
- 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…
- Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich, or aristocratic, they…
- Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering.
- Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.
- For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control.... I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go…
- The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.
- The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it's good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth will trickle own,…
- At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down.
- My own view of myself was that I was small and innocuous, a marshmallow compared to the others. I was a poor shot with a…
- Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on…
- Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.
- 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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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster
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- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle. — Karen Armstrong