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Margaret Atwood

Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor

born 1939

10 quotes, most often on Writing.

Writers started doing dystopias after we saw the effects of trying to build utopias that required, unfortunately, the elimination of a lot of people before you could get to the perfect point, which never arrived.
The Progressive interview (2010)
- Writing
It’s a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised biography — but if you write your biography, it’s equally assumed you’re lying your head off.
On Writing Poetry (1995)
- Truth & Lies
- Writing
All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.
The Blind Assassin (2000)
- Writing

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