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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

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.

Margaret Atwood
Reading, Believe, Writing
FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Dec 08, 2014

A word after a word after a word is power.

Margaret Atwood
Inspirational, Life, Reading
"Spelling". Poem by Margaret Atwood, www.poemhunter.com.

I myself discovered many authors through school reading lists and through school anthologies. The positives are: young readers can find the world opening up to them through books they study. The negatives may include bad experiences kids have - if they don't like the book or the teacher, or the way the book is taught.

Margaret Atwood
Teacher, Book, Reading

More of your brain is involved when reading than it is when you watch television... because you are supplying just about everything... you're a creator.

Margaret Atwood
Reading, Creativity, Brain

You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book, because you wrote the thing. You've been backstage. You've seen how the rabbits were smuggled into the hat. Therefore ask a reading friend or two to look at it before you give it to anyone in the publishing business. This friend should not be someone with whom you have a ­romantic relationship, unless you want to break up.

Margaret Atwood
Reading, Book, Writing
"Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected.

Margaret Atwood
Reading, Water Bottles, Comfort

Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn't available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It's a habit like all habits.

Margaret Atwood
Reading, Communication, Mean

If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that's it. You're not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You're not going to read that book again.

Margaret Atwood
Book, Reading, Heart
"Narrative Magazine’s Friday Feature: Margaret Atwood Interview, In Which She Talks About “A Handmaid’s Tale”, “The Year Of The Flood” And Having Fun". Interview with Jo Scott-Coe, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

Reading ... changes you. You aren't the same person after you've read a particular book as you were before, and you will read the next book, unless both are Harlequin Romances, in a slightly different way.

Margaret Atwood
Reading, Book, Romance
Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

Margaret Atwood
Reading, Writing, Drawing
"Margaret Atwood on Her New Book MaddAddam". The Oprah magazine Interview, www.oprah.com. September, 2013.

It is my contention that the process of reading is part of the process of writing, the necessary completion without which writing can hardly be said to exist.

Margaret Atwood
Reading, Writing, Process
Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.

Margaret Atwood
Real, Book, Reading
"Double bluff". Interview with Katharine Viner, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2000.

I meet a lot of readers who first encountered my work in school. And I can only assume there is another group who would run away very fast if they saw me coming, for exactly the same reason. Reading is individual, and not all tastes are alike.

Margaret Atwood
Running, Reading, School

Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way, sometimes a radically different way.

Margaret Atwood
Reading, Different, Pieces
"14 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Margaret Atwood". Interview with Krystie Lee Yandoli, www.buzzfeed.com. October 9, 2014.

If we read books all the time we would be very unhealthy, as we would not get any fresh air, exercise, or contact with nature. Also we would not spend time with other people. There are a lot of plusses to reading - it's an interactive brain workout - but like everything else that's beneficial in moderation, overdoses can be dangerous.

Margaret Atwood
Workout, Book, Reading

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