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A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

~Margaret Atwood

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Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

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In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

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The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

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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 in?

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This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

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You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

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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 plastic. If plastic vanished, there would be total chaos. We have to think quite carefully about using oil and its derivatives, because it's not going to be around forever.

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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 older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Novelist

Born: November 18th, 1939

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