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Famous Margaret Atwood Quotes
“War is what happens when language fails.”
“Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.”
“We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.”
“You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.”
“Gardening is not a rational act.”
“Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.”
“The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.”
“The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.”
“We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.”
“Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.”
“Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.”
“I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.”
“I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.”
“I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.”
“Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.”
“People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.”
“Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.”
“Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.”
“Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.”