Margaret Atwood quote: There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because ...

There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.

~ Margaret Atwood ~

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