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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… — Margaret Atwood
I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking… — Margaret Atwood
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… — Margaret Atwood
I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That's science fiction;… — Margaret Atwood
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… — Margaret Atwood
I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,' or 'Nobody under… — Margaret Atwood
If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your… — Margaret Atwood
If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to… — Margaret Atwood
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… — Margaret Atwood
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… — Margaret Atwood
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… — Margaret Atwood
There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up… — Margaret Atwood
The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's… — Chinua Achebe
You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have… — Margaret Atwood
You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to… — Margaret Atwood
You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form… — Margaret Atwood
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or… — Kevyn Aucoin
Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself… — Kevyn Aucoin
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden
You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Learn from your dreams what you lack. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy. — Wystan Hugh Auden
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. — Saint Augustine
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. — Saint Augustine

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