Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood, CC OOnt FRSCis a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award several times, winning twice. In 2001, she was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. She is also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth18 November 1939
CityOttawa, Canada
CountryCanada
Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.
Some travelers think they want to go to foreign places but are dismayed when the places turn out actually to be foreign.
Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. If you can bend space you can bend time also, and if you knew enough and could move faster than light you could travel backwards in time and exist in two places at once.
A suicide is both a rebuke to the living and a puzzle that defies them to solve it. Like a poem, suicide is finished and refuses to answer questions as to its final cause.
So that’s what art is, for the artist,” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.
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.
Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
Don't eat anything you aren't prepared to kill. Don't kill anything you aren't prepared to eat.
The central symbol for Canada-and this based on numerous instances of its occurrence in both English and French Canadian literature-is undoubtedly Survival, la Survivance.
I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program.
I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.
I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.
I'm bad at picking heroes.
Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.