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
We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.
There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.
Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.
'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.
Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.
Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.
I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.
In Heaven, there are no debts - all have been paid, one way or another - but in Hell there's nothing but debts, and a great deal of payment is exacted, though you can't ever get all paid up. You have to pay, and pay, and keep on paying. So Hell is like an infernal maxed-out credit card that multiplies the charges endlessly.
I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.
If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive.
Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.