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Margaret Atwood Quotes

«For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.»
«You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.»
«A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.»
«He's very in depth, on the dark side. He's interested in structure and how things work. After reading his books you can't just be a tourist in those places, only seeing the sunny side.»
«The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.»
«The Orange prize has been pivotal in the careers of many women writers - it's given them that extra push, and that extra dollop of confidence.»
«Once upon a time you could wander around one country, then the next and then maybe you'd go to England or wherever. Now they all want you to do it at the same time and you can't. It's just not physically possible.»
«Just think of it as a very, very long pen.»
«Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.»

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