This is the middle of my life, I think of it as a place, like the middle of a river, the middle of a bridge, halfway across, halfway over. I'm supposed to have accumulated things by now: possessions, responsibilities, achievements, experience and wisdom. I'm supposed to be a person of substance.
Margaret AtwoodI saw all of the films [based on The Tempest] available, including the one with Helen Mirren in which Prospero is Prospera - you wonder, "Would it work?" But it does, because anything she does works.
Margaret AtwoodThose walls and bars are there for a reason,โ said Crake. โNot to keep us out, but to keep them in. Mankind needs barriers in both cases.โ โThem?โ โNature and God.โ โI thought you didnโt believe in God,โ said Jimmy. โI donโt believe in Nature either,โ said Crake. โOr not with a capital N.
Margaret AtwoodPeople talking about politics usually start from the ass end backwards in that they think you have a political agenda, and then you make your work fit that cookie cutter. It's the other way around. One works by simple observation, looking into things. It's usually called insight and out of that comes your view - not that you have the view first and then squash everything to make it fit. I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.
Margaret Atwood