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Just keep stirring the pot, you never know what will come up. — Lee Atwater
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on… — Chinua Achebe
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. — Margaret Atwood
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. — Margaret Atwood
Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit… — Margaret Atwood
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer. — Margaret Atwood
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose. — Margaret Atwood
Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you… — Margaret Atwood
Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself. — Margaret Atwood
Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome. — Margaret Atwood
Never pray for justice, because you might get some. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL… — Margaret Atwood
You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood
You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it. — Margaret Atwood
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… — Margaret Atwood
If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack… — Margaret Atwood
A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's… — Margaret Atwood
As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from,… — Margaret Atwood
Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came… — Margaret Atwood
Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted… — Margaret Atwood
Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that… — Margaret Atwood
Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such… — Margaret Atwood

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