Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to land, where the notes are read and then possibly cherished, or else misinterpreted, or else understood all too well by those who hate the message. You never know who your readers might be.
Margaret AtwoodTags: writing publishing
The internet is 95 percent porn and spam
Margaret AtwoodI was taking something away from her, although she didn't know it. I was filching. Never mind that it was something she apparently didn't want or had no use for, had rejected even; still, it was hers, and if I took it away, this mysterious "it" I couldn't quite define.
Margaret AtwoodPink is supposed to weaken your enemies, make them go soft on you, which must be why it's used for baby girls. It's a wonder the military hasn't got on to this.
Margaret AtwoodTags: humorous
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
Margaret AtwoodI was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.
Margaret AtwoodA hot wind was blowing around my head, the strands of my hair lifting and swirling in it, like ink spilled in water.
Margaret AtwoodOn these occasions I read quickly, voraciously, almost skimming, trying to get as much into my head as possible before the next long starvation. If it were eating it would be gluttony of the famished; if it were sex it would be a swift furtive stand-up in an alley somewhere.
Margaret AtwoodMaybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.
Margaret AtwoodYou can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This is what I feel like: this sound of glass. I feel like the word shatter. I want to be with someone.
Margaret AtwoodTags: shatter vulnerable
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