Books being written
Are strewn with
pitfalls
For those who write
them
A tendency to
sermonize
A veering into
allegory
A lack of
plausibility.
If one creates an
imaginary garden,
The toads in it
should be real.
Only tell of events
which have already happened
In Joyce's
"nightmare" of history
Only describe
technology
Already available.
No made-up gizmos
No made-up laws
No made-up
atrocities.
God is in the
details,
They say.
So is the
Devil.
Margaret Atwood
(arranged quote,
derived from her NYT article,
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