I did ... learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it's about your friends, a plot element if it's about a character in a novel, and scholarship if it's about John Keats.
Margaret AtwoodScience fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
Margaret AtwoodYou hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.
Margaret Atwood