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You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.

~Margaret Atwood

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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 all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

~Margaret Atwood

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Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

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If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling.

~Margaret Atwood

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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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Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.

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Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.

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I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look up something in it; very handy for that - you can have it just the next minute; you can press the button and just have it.

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My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.

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Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

~Margaret Atwood

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Novelist

Born: November 18th, 1939

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