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The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

~Margaret Atwood

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Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

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I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

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When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.

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Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game.

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I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.

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There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

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I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology goes down, the immediate fallback position is either that technology just before that or one several technologies back.

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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 to online reading, but as soon as it isn't available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It's a habit like all habits.

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Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Novelist

Born: November 18th, 1939

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