The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the world.
Margaret AtwoodThese things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency.
Margaret AtwoodThe one good thing to be said about announcing yourself as a writer in the colonial Canadian fifties is that nobody told me I couldn't do it because I was a girl. They simply found the entire proposition ridiculous. Writers were dead and English, or else extremely elderly and American; they were not sixteen years old and Canadian.
Margaret Atwood