Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And,…

Margaret Atwood
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well. ✨ FaceBook post byMargaret Atwood from Dec 08, 2014
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If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word. ✨ FaceBook post byMargaret Atwood from May 05, 2014
If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons … ▶
I am not my childhood,' Snowman says out loud. ✨ Margaret Atwood (2004). Oryx and Crake, p.68, Anchor
You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye ✨ Margaret Atwood (1987). Selected Poems, 1965-1975, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it. ✨ Margaret Atwood (2007). The Tent, p.27, Anchor

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