Nia Griffiths

“And once you've got clocks, you've got death and dead people, because time, as we know, runs on, and then it runs out, and dead people are situated outside of time, whereas living people are still immersed in it.”
― Margaret Atwood, Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing

“Possibly, then, writing has to do with darkness, and a desire or perhaps a compulsion to enter it, and, with luck, to illuminate it, and to bring something back out to the light.”
― Margaret Atwood, Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing

“Virginia Woolf said that writing a novel is like walking through a dark room, holding a lantern which lights up what is already in the room anyway.”
― Margaret Atwood, Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing

“This is perhaps why Dante chooses the poet Virgil to be his guide in the Inferno; in visiting a strange location, it's always best to go with someone who's been there before, and – most important of all on a sightseeing tour of Hell – who might also know how to get you out again.”
― Margaret Atwood, Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing