Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering.
Margaret AtwoodI'm a Red Tory. To get a fix on this category, you have to go back to the 19th century. The Tories were the ones who believed that those in power had a responsibility to the community, that money should not be the measure of all things.
Margaret AtwoodSpeculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.
Margaret AtwoodIf you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen nextโif you knew in advance the consequences of your own actionsโyou'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.
Margaret Atwood