“What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous. The so-called uselessness of art is a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
There's a whole generation growing up thinking you shouldn't seek knowledge for its own sake, and that theatre and art and books… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“It takes so little time to change a lifetime and it takes a lifetime to understand the change.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“We always think the thing we need to transform everything - the miracle - is elsewhere, but often it is right next… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“On more than one occasion I have been ready to abandon my whole life for love. To alter everything that makes sense… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When we make a change, it's so easy to interpret our unsettledness as unhappiness, and our unhappiness as a result of having… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The poet will not be satisfied with recording, the poet will have to transform. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
..to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Energy cannot be lost, only transformed; where do the words go?” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“After nine nights must come ten and every desperate meeting only leaves you desperate for another. There is never enough to eat, never enough… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Yes. Just pass me my leg will you? It's on top of the wardrobe where he threw it, and I think my right arm… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse -- there is more than… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression. If what I feel is not precise than how should… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What would it have meant to be happy? What would it have meant if things had been bright, clear, good between us? — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Mrs Ratlow was a widow, and she was head of English, but she still did all the cooking and cleaning for her two sons,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous. The so-called uselessness of art is a clue to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Happy Valentines Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don’t give up.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
