Margaret Atwood Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.”

“I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.”

“You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.”

“There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.”

“I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.”

“I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.”