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Which Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here.
- I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.
- Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no…
- 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 time…
- 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…
- We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for fuel but also…
- Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.
- 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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