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Margaret Atwood sat down for a great interview with Literary Hub’s Grant Munroe. They talked about the Hulu series based on The Handmaid’s Tale, Donald Trump, Salem witch trials, paper books and vinyl coming back, birds and housecats, and her numerous projects, including an upcoming novel based on Shakespear’s The Tempest. Here is just one of …
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einfetzengemeinschaft: “When you are in the middle of a story it isn’t a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard …
Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them. Margaret Atwood (via izzyinvisible) Think I’ve had this on the blog before. So relevant.
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard’s Egg
slaughterhouse90210: “I thought my heart was pure. We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we’re about to do something harmful, to someone else.”― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away …
Margaret Atwood described how she approached and drafted The Blind Assassin for the Guardian (link above.) The text really conveys how the right structure turns a good idea into a great story.Margaret Atwood on The Blind Assassin – Guardian Book Club
slaughterhouse90210: “Things might have been different if she hadn’t been able to drift; if she’d had to concentrate on her next meal, instead of dwelling on all the injuries she felt we’d done her. An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it.” ― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it. Margaret Atwood: The Blind Assassin
CLARITY AND CHAOS 