Margaret Atwood: ‘People bond to the books. Nobody wants my shoelaces’

People see my head on a book and attach a tall body to it. The image of somebody that you have accorded status to in your mind is a large one; the Greeks always made the gods quite tall. I’m short. Shorter than you think.

From Margaret Atwood: ‘People bond to the books. Nobody wants my shoelaces’ | Life and style | The Guardian