Canadian author Margaret Atwood dismissed advice to prioritize marriage over her writing career in a recent interview.

In a recent interview, Canadian author Margaret Atwood recounted dismissing a university adviser's suggestion to prioritize marriage over her writing career, retorting, "You're an idiot." She emphasized the importance of pursuing her academic and creative ambitions instead. Atwood, whose new poetry collection "Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems: 1961-2023" showcases her six decades of work, also discussed managing envy and processing sorrow as natural human experiences.