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
I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?
I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely.
If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say.
It's his word against the Commander's, unless he wants to head a posse. Kick in the door, and what did I tell you? Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words.
Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.
If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.
I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.
Some travelers think they want to go to foreign places but are dismayed when the places turn out actually to be foreign.
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.
It's probably a form of childish curiosity that keeps me going as a fiction writer. I ... want to open everybody's bureau drawers and see what they keep in there. I'm nosy.
Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.
Despite their cool poses they wear their cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. They want it all.
Remember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing.
They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.