More quotes by Margaret Atwood

"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."
"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."
"I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary."
"So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what."