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There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.

~Margaret Atwood

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You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.

~Margaret Atwood

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If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

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You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

~Margaret Atwood

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The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

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Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

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Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

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Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

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If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

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Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich, or aristocratic, they shuffle around. They're a group phenomenon, they're not very fast, they're quite sickly. So what's the pleasure of being one?

~Margaret Atwood

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Novelist

Born: November 18th, 1939

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