If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling.
Margaret AtwoodPerhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.
Margaret AtwoodTime is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.
Margaret AtwoodIn the First World War, people would be receiving letters from loved ones who had been dead for weeks, and they would not know until that black-bordered telegram arrived. I remember, of course, when it was letters only, or the telephone, and you did not make expensive long-distance calls unless it was, "Come home to the funeral," or the like.
Margaret Atwood