Margaret Atwood s-a născut pe 18 noiembrie 1939 în Ottawa, Canada.
Pe parcursul carierei sale, Margaret Atwood a primit numeroase premii și diplome onorifice. Ea este autorul a peste treizeci și cinci de volume de poezie, literatură pentru copii, ficțiune și non-ficțiune și este recunoscută pentru romanele The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin.
Lucrările sale au fost traduse în mai mult de patruzeci de limbi, inclusiv în limbile farsi, japoneză, turcă, finlandeză, coreeană, islandeză și estonă.
Margaret Atwood locuiește în prezent în Toronto cu scriitorul Graeme Gibson.
Aceasta a anunțat recent că va apărea o continuare a romanului The Handmaid's Tale. :)
“War is what happens when language fails.”
“A word after a word after a word is power.”
“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.”
“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”
“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.”
“I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.”
“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.”
“We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.”
“The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.”
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