If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't.
Margaret Atwood
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More quotes by Margaret Atwood
- Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
- Gardening is not a rational act.
- I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.
- The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.