I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something.
Margaret AtwoodWe all know that a book is not really a person. It isnโt a human being. But if you are a lover of books as books โ as objects, that is โ and ignore the human element in them โ that is, their voices โ you will be committing an error of the soul, because you will be an idolator, or else a fetishist.
Margaret AtwoodEvery budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.
Margaret Atwood