One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Don’t you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under the bed and put away the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to… — 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
If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, `more than likely, that thing will happen.' She tapped her head. `It's… — 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
