Laughter may instruct but it may also conceal, defending the joker against anger and retaliation: a game is only a game.
Margaret AtwoodIt is my contention that the process of reading is part of the process of writing, the necessary completion without which writing can hardly be said to exist.
Margaret AtwoodThen sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave - The water below is as dark as the grave, And maybe you'll sink in your little blue boat - It's hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat
Margaret AtwoodYou can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book, because you wrote the thing. You've been backstage. You've seen how the rabbits were smuggled into the hat. Therefore ask a reading friend or two to look at it before you give it to anyone in the publishing business. This friend should not be someone with whom you have a ยญromantic relationship, unless you want to break up.
Margaret Atwood