“I've always tried to make a home for myself, but I have not felt at home in myself. I've worked hard at… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you… — 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
Where did love begin?What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea? Was there a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Explore me' you said and I collected my ropes, flasks and maps, expecting to be back home soon. I dropped into the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Don’t lie. You know you like to view but not to buy. I have found that I am not a space where… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When my husband had an affair with someone else I watched his eyes glaze over when we ate dinner together and I… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The truth is that you can divide your heart in all sorts of interesting ways - a little here, a little there,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When I left home at sixteen I bought a small rug. It was my roll-up world. Whatever room, whatever temporary place I… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I don't hate men, I just wish they'd try harder. Theyall want to be heroes and all we want is for them… — 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
