What did Margaret Atwood mean by: Literature is not only a mirror; it is a map, a geography of the mind. - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada Copy
+ Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Evil, Extremes, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Romance, Running, Running Away, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ Every novel is-at the beginning-the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Doors, Novel, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ Is anything wrong, dear? the old joke went. No, why? You moved. Just don’t move. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Dear, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy? Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Problem, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Anecdotes, Belief, Memories, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Sentimental, Stories, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don’t consider that. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Harm, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you’ll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds – habits and novelty. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France