Atwood and Gibson, both writers, are married and have three children.
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"One thing I take very seriously when writing fiction is the accuracy of the physical details....I like the clothes and the food to be accurate, and I like to be clear about all kinds of other little things--to the point of doing obsessive research on things such as the date plastic garbage bags were invented..."
"When people say to me, 'Which of the characters in "The Robber Bride" do you identify with most closely?' I say, 'I identify with Zenia. She is the professional liar, and what else do fiction writers do but create lies that other people will believe'?"
"There is almost nothing you can write about which has not been outdone in absurdity or ghastliness by real events."
"The writer...retains three attributes that power-mad regimes cannot tolerate: a human imagination...; the power to communicate; and hope."
"When there was a known fact, I felt that I had to use it. In other words, I stuck to the known facts when they were truly known. But when there were gaps or when there were things suggested that nobody ever explained, I felt I was free to invent."
"I feel a writer must involve the larger world. That's where people live; they live in the world...[I]t's artificial to limit the characters so much that they never read a newspaper or listen to the news."
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Margaret Atwood grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College. The daughter of a forest entomologist, Atwood spent a large part of her childhood in the Canadian wilderness. At the age of six she began to write "poems, morality plays, comic books, and an unfinished novel about an ant." At 16 she found that writing was "...suddenly the only thing I wanted to d more...
Margaret Atwood grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College. The daughter of a forest entomologist, Atwood spent a large part of her childhood in the Canadian wilderness. At the age of six she began to write "poems, morality plays, comic books, and an unfinished novel about an ant." At 16 she found that writing was "...suddenly the only thing I wanted to do." Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and several honorary degrees. She is the author of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, including children's books and short stories. Atwood has traveled extensively and has lived in Boston, Vancouver, Montreal, London, Provence, Berlin, Edinburgh and Toronto. Her novel THE BLIND ASSASSIN won the Booker Prize in 2000. less...
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