“Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
A character has a distinctive voice - you should be able to hear them in your head and conduct a conversation with… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Eating words and listening to them rumbling in the gut is how a writer learns the acid and alkali of language. It… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“To say exactly what one means, even to one's own private satisfaction, is difficult. To say exactly what one means and to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The key to happiness, she said, is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.' `What if those who do… — 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
