Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up.
Margaret AtwoodMyths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
Margaret AtwoodThings might have been different if she hadn't been able to drift; if she'd had to concentrate on her next meal, instead of dwelling on all the injuries she felt we'd done her. An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it.
Margaret AtwoodIt doesn't really matter what "genre" your book is. What matters is that it's a good book of its kind. Whatever that kind may be.
Margaret Atwood