Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.
Margaret AtwoodI have never had any problems with editors who wanted me to change my methods or point of view. I pay a lot of attention to editors, but in a different way. They sometimes catch mistakes and help with the order of poems in a book. I do not underestimate them! Indeed, I have been one myself.
Margaret AtwoodThat is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.
Margaret AtwoodPeople cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.
Margaret AtwoodJust as if you do a mash-up of reality from the point of view of African Americans in this country, you're going to end up with something that will say, "This is Black Lives Matter." It's not that people necessarily have started out from that premise. But if you're looking at reality, that will be the result because that is reality.
Margaret Atwood