History is not a suicide note -- it is a record of our survival. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“History has had you - and me too. My hand has brushed against yours for centuries.” — 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
History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“When you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own--… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“There is always a city. There is always a civilization. There is always a barbarian with a pickaxe. Sometimes you are the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
And when I look at a history book and think of the imaginative effort it has taken to squeeze this oozing world… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“There is a certain seductiveness about what is dead. It will retain all those admirable qualities of life with none of that… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Unmoor the boat, we could go…downriver... History is a collection of found objects washed up through time. Goods, ideas, personalities surface towards… — 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
