I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.
MARGARET ATWOODThere’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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I’m a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don’t like multitasking. When I’m doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.
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I’m bad at picking heroes.
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In the end, we’ll all become stories.
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Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
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I’m a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one’s life trying to pretend that non-existent people are real: though no odder, I suppose, than what government bureaucrats do, which is trying to pretend that real people are non-existent.
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A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and dignity-destroying precipice you were walking along, you would switch into actuarial sciences immediately.
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Canada was built on dead beavers.
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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 don’t want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
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When any civilization is dust and ashes,” he said, “art is all that’s left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that.
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I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.
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Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on bones; without them there’d be no stories.
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It’s evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
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Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.
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Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
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