Margaret Atwood : (13)

" 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

" I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. " - Margaret Atwood

" When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical – one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float. " - Margaret Atwood

" Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist. " - Margaret Atwood

" Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow. " - Margaret Atwood

" 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. " - Margaret Atwood

" I’m from the generation that had the boys’ door and the girls’ door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one. " - Margaret Atwood

" I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That’s science fiction; it isn’t going to happen. " - Margaret Atwood

" 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. " - Margaret Atwood

" A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. " - Margaret Atwood