I return to problems i can't solve, not because i am an idiot, but because the real problems can't be solved. The… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think writing is a process that starts long before the writers are actually writers and probably goes on long afterward. It's… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
We didn't build our bridges simply to avoid walking on water. Nothing so obvious. A bridge is a meeting place. A neutral… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The secret of the world is this: the world is entirely circular and you will go round and round endlessly, never finding… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I have set off and found that there is no end to even the simplest journey of the mind. I begin, and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
To me, these days will never end. I am always there, in that room with her, or if not I, the imprint… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I choose this story above all others because it's a story I'm struggling to end. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It's only a story, you say. So it is, and the rest of life with it - creation story, love story, horror,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The universe has no sides, no end, can't be mapped. Enough to make a man talk about God, make a man superstitious… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I want to get to the end and feel that I've done all I could, given the limitations and given the opportunities. — 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
