Life Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

Life was a pre-death experience.

— Jeanette Winterson

“What is it about intimacy that makes it so very disturbing?”

— Jeanette Winterson

Life is so simple when you're just doing your job.

— Jeanette Winterson

“If there is another life he will find her there.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“It was Hell, if hell is where the life we love cannot exist.”

— Jeanette Winterson

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

— Jeanette Winterson

The only selfish life is a timid one.

— Jeanette Winterson

In this life, you have to be your own hero.

— Jeanette Winterson

“The inside and the outside of our lives are each the shell where we learn to live.”

— Jeanette Winterson

The most prosaic of us betray a belief in the inward life every time we talk about 'my body' rather than 'I.

— Jeanette Winterson

Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall.

— Jeanette Winterson

Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.

— Jeanette Winterson

“It was like living in a library, and that was where I had always been happiest.”

— Jeanette Winterson

The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.

— Jeanette Winterson

To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.

— Jeanette Winterson

“Here's my life - I have to mine it, farm it, trade it, tenant it, and when the lease is up it…

— Jeanette Winterson

I know I've had an unusual beginning and a colourful life, but that wouldn't matter if I couldn't make it speak to…

— Jeanette Winterson

I don't want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. The only selfish life is a timid one.…

— Jeanette Winterson

“For some, perhaps for many, books are spare time. For me, the rest of life is spare time: I wake and sleep…

— Jeanette Winterson

“The human heart is my territory. I write about love because it’s the most important thing in the world. I write about…

— Jeanette Winterson

I will do whatever I have to do to reach people with the things I believe are important. Life is too short…

— Jeanette Winterson

“I always say to people who want to write: Live life! Don't stand on the rim, don't sit on the sidelines. Make…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open - the only…

— Jeanette Winterson

“I stretched out my hands, holding the falling sun in one hand, and the climbing moon in the other, my silver and…

— Jeanette Winterson

“He did not say so, but the words behind the words told me that he would rather have launched me into a…

— Jeanette Winterson

No. Take the heart first. Then you don't feel the cold so much. The pain so much. With the heart gone, there's…

— Jeanette Winterson

“It’s better if I think of my life like that – part miracle, part madness. It’s better if I accept that I…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Pursuing happiness, and I did, and I still do, is not at all the saem as being happy - which I think…

— Jeanette Winterson

What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Creative work bridges time because the energy of art is not time-bound. If it were we should have no interest in the…

— Jeanette Winterson

Lie beside me. Let me see the division of your pores. Let me see the web of scars made by your family's…

— Jeanette Winterson

Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart…

— Jeanette Winterson

“But where was God now, with heaven full of astronauts, and the Lord overthrown? I miss God. I miss the company of…

— Jeanette Winterson

In this life you have to be your own hero. By that I mean you have to win whatever it is that…

— Jeanette Winterson

Love, they say, enslaves and passion is a demon and many have been lost for love. I know this is true, but…

— Jeanette Winterson

Today, the sun is everywhere, and everything solid is nothing but its own shadow, I know that the real things in life,…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Living with life is very hard. Mostly we do our best to stifle life--to be tame or to be wanton. To be…

— Jeanette Winterson

“The truth is that I’ve spent all my life with my binoculars trained on the Maybe Islands, a pristine place of fantasy…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Much of what I have done is left unfinished- not because I left it too soon, not because I was lazy, but…

— Jeanette Winterson