Canadian author Margaret Atwood rejected advice to abandon writing for marriage on Wild Card podcast.

In a recent Wild Card podcast, Canadian author Margaret Atwood recounted rejecting advice to abandon her writing for marriage, responding, "You're an idiot." She emphasized the value of pursuing one's passions, crediting a faculty member's suggestion to attend graduate school for boosting her productivity. Atwood discussed managing criticism, using detractors in her fiction, and viewing sorrow as a natural human experience that should be processed, not avoided.