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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
- Margaret Atwood
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Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.
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I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look up something in it; very handy for that - you can have it just the next minute; you can press the button and just have it.
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Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.
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Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.
- Margaret Atwood
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I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,' or 'Nobody under 25.' With my books, it always has been, and continues to be, spread right across the board, and I think the operative term is 'reader.'
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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.
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There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.
- Margaret Atwood
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Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.
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I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the Quebec bush. I grew up in and out of the bush, in and out of Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto.
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There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up in the reader. That's what writers do when they're good.
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If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author with the narrator, and you can't, obviously, be all of the narrators in all of your books, or else you'd be a very strange person indeed.
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The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the world.
- Margaret Atwood
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