3 December 2020 Margaret Atwood I don’t think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It’s essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.
3 December 2020 Margaret Atwood Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn’t happen, but other planets.
3 December 2020 Margaret Atwood Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
3 December 2020 Margaret Atwood I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‘race’ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.
3 December 2020 Margaret Atwood If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
3 December 2020 Margaret Atwood The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
3 December 2020 Margaret Atwood Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.
3 December 2020 Margaret Atwood I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.
