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Danh ngôn của Margaret Atwood (Sứ mệnh: 8)

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
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.
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.
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
War is what happens when language fails.
Gardening is not a rational act.
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.
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.
Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space.
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.
The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.
If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental argument for it.
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters.
I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact.
Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.
Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn't available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It's a habit like all habits.
Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.
Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.
If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to give up some personal freedom.
Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.
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.
I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.
People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.