Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.
Margaret AtwoodI enjoyed teaching. I liked the students. Having to formulate my ideas about literature made them clearer. I did not particularly enjoy the more bureaucratic aspects of the job. However, if you are teaching fervently, your energy and time are used up at a great rate.
Margaret AtwoodWriting... is an act of faith: I believe it's also an act of hope, the hope that things can get better than they are.
Margaret AtwoodI hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.
Margaret Atwood