Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‘Oryx and Crake’ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it’s neutral. Margaret Atwood Read Quote
Genres aren’t closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time. Margaret Atwood Read Quote
I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy – people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online – but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can’t use the net unless you can read. Margaret Atwood Read Quote
Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. Margaret Atwood Read Quote
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. Margaret Atwood Read Quote
You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up. Margaret Atwood Read Quote
I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw. Margaret Atwood Read Quote
We shouldn’t be saying ‘Save the planet’; we should be saying: ‘Save viable conditions in which people can live.’ That’s what we’re dealing with here. Margaret Atwood Read Quote
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. Margaret Atwood Read Quote
