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Margaret Atwood on Writing

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“If you really do want to write, and you're struggling to get started, you're afraid of something. What is that fear?”

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“What you want on the first page is something that is going to beckon the reader in.”
“A word after a word after a word is power.”
“What you read is as important as what you write.”
“Nobody knows where ideas come from, but let us say, if you immerse yourself in something, whether it be music, painting, or writing…you are going to get ideas about it. But you have to do the immersing first. You're not just sitting there, waiting for lightning to strike.”
“I'm more of a downhill skier. I try to go as fast as I can and then I have to backtrack a lot and fill in revisions.”
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