More quotes by Margaret Atwood

"The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love."
"Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow."
"War is what happens when language fails."
"But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It cannot be convinced of its safety by any evidence drawn from my waking life."
"Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs."