You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.
Margaret AtwoodSo thatโs what art is, for the artist,โ said Crake. โAn empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.
Margaret AtwoodAll writers must go from now to once a upon a time; all must go from here to there; all must descend to where the stories are kept; all must take care not to be captured and held immobile by the past.
Margaret AtwoodI have a fork and a spoon, but never a knifeโฆ as if Iโm lacking manual skills or teeth. I have both, however. Thatโs why Iโm not allowed a knife.
Margaret AtwoodThe one good thing to be said about announcing yourself as a writer in the colonial Canadian fifties is that nobody told me I couldn't do it because I was a girl. They simply found the entire proposition ridiculous. Writers were dead and English, or else extremely elderly and American; they were not sixteen years old and Canadian.
Margaret Atwood