AUTHOR | MARGARET ATWOOD
Margaret Atwood | Novelist, poet, businesswoman, environmental activist
Bio:
Margaret Eleanor Atwood, CC OOnt FRSC is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award several times, winning twice. In 2001, she was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. She is also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canada's writing community. Among innumerable contributions to Canadian literature, she was a founding trustee of the Griffin Poetry Prize. Atwood is also the inventor, and developer, of the LongPen and associated technologies that facilitate the remote robotic writing of documents. She is the Co-Founder and a Director of Syngrafii Inc. (formerly Unotchit Inc.), a company that she started in 2004 to develop, produce and distribute the LongPen technol
Born: 1939-11-18
Born in: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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All Quotes from the Author Margaret Atwood 103
“ Then there's the twoof us. This wordis far too short...
“ So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun....
“ Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely ...
“ Kill what you can't savewhat you can't eat throw out...
“ A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but...
“ The possibility of injury or death was a strong attr...
“ Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
“ All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, t...
“ How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all.
“ Don't let the bastards grind you down.
“ Where do the words gowhen we have said them?
“ It must have been then that I began to lose faith in...
“ A word after a word after a word is power.
“ ...He was wrong about the sadness though: far better...