59 Margaret Atwood Quotes for You to Enjoy

Margaret Atwood

Canadian Novelist

Born: Nov 18, 1939

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You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it. Margaret Atwood

You Never Come Because Built Going Human Storytelling Plan

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don't go there to swim, then those young people don't have to find out by trial and error. Margaret Atwood

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If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't. Margaret Atwood

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make. Margaret Atwood

Technology People Digital Digital Technology Everything Only Make Mean Use Actually

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets. Margaret Atwood

Me Science Other Only Science Fiction Fiction Happen Planets Things

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard. Margaret Atwood

Harvard Subject Literature Victorian

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