Quote of the Day

"When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been."

- Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of non-fiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, and two graphic novels, as well as a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction.