“ You learn to write by reading and writing, writing and reading. As a craft it's acquired through the apprentice system, but you choose your own teachers. Sometimes they're alive, sometimes dead.As a v… Margaret Atwood
“ I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it. Margaret Atwood
“ Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants. Margaret Atwood
“ She is the witch you burnedby daylight and crept from your hometo consult & bribe at night. The lovethat tortured you you blamed on her. Margaret Atwood
“ Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary. Margaret Atwood
“ I felt confused, and also inadequate; whatever he was asking or demanding, it was beyond me. this was the first time a man would expect more from me than i was capable of giving, but it wouldn't be th… Margaret Atwood
“ Every month there is a moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen. IT transits, pauses, continues on and passes out of sight, and I see despair coming towards me like famine. To feel that empty, again, aga… Margaret Atwood
“ Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that. Margaret Atwood
“ 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 -… Margaret Atwood
