Thinking Quotes by Margaret Atwood

You can think clearly only with your clothes on.

— Margaret Atwood

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

— Margaret Atwood

The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.

— Margaret Atwood

I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

— Margaret Atwood

“She was thinking about how not to think.”

— Margaret Atwood

There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time.

— Margaret Atwood

I think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write.

— Margaret Atwood

What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole…

— Margaret Atwood

I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the…

— Margaret Atwood

I think calling it climate change is rather limiting. I would rather call it the everything change.

— Margaret Atwood

But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies,…

— Margaret Atwood

Writing is alone, but I don't think it's lonely. Ask any writer if they feel lonely when they're writing their book, and…

— Margaret Atwood

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

— Margaret Atwood

I am rather saddened at the end of a book. I think most writers find this. It's like a friend departing on…

— Margaret Atwood

I don't think it's a question of whether you eat meat. It's a question of what kind of meat, and where it…

— Margaret Atwood

Everybody acts as if they have free will. They act as if they can make these decisions; do they know they don't?…

— Margaret Atwood

Sometimes reactions can be quite surprising: readers like things that you, the author, feel you've barely gotten away with; or they dislike…

— Margaret Atwood

Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's…

— Margaret Atwood

We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for…

— Margaret Atwood

The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is…

— Margaret Atwood

You think you have the amount of money that is your credit limit. We're just wired to think that, you know? Until…

— Margaret Atwood

I was unfair to him, of course, but where would I have been without unfairness? In thrall, in harness. Young women need…

— Margaret Atwood

Jimmy had been full of himself back then, thinks Snowman with indulgence and a little envy. He’d been unhappy too, of course.…

— Margaret Atwood

People talking about politics usually start from the ass end backwards in that they think you have a political agenda, and then…

— Margaret Atwood

There are novels that end well, but in between there are human beings acting like human beings. And human beings are not…

— Margaret Atwood

All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. ...Think about it. There's escaping from the…

— Margaret Atwood

Everybody was going along thinking that it was a day like any other day, and bang, down went the Twin Towers. Changed…

— Margaret Atwood

When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of…

— Margaret Atwood

And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain.…

— Margaret Atwood

They are hypocrites, they think the Church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and…

— Margaret Atwood

I think the main thing is: Just do it. Plunge in! Being Canadian, I go swimming in icy cold lakes, and there…

— Margaret Atwood

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

— Margaret Atwood

You think I'm not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you'll burn.

— Margaret Atwood

I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.

— Margaret Atwood

Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things…

— Margaret Atwood

If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the…

— Margaret Atwood

Some travelers think they want to go to foreign places but are dismayed when the places turn out actually to be foreign.

— Margaret Atwood

When we're young, we like happy endings. When we're a little older, we think happy endings are unrealistic and so we prefer…

— Margaret Atwood

I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate. I would prefer to…

— Margaret Atwood

I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases…

— Margaret Atwood