Ifs Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become…

— Jeanette Winterson

As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.

— Jeanette Winterson

If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.

— Jeanette Winterson

I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.

— Jeanette Winterson

I know I've had an unusual beginning and a colourful life, but that wouldn't matter if I couldn't make it speak to…

— Jeanette Winterson

When I was born, my father wanted to drown me, but my mother persuaded him to let me live in disguise, to…

— Jeanette Winterson

What would it have meant to be happy? What would it have meant if things had been bright, clear, good between us?

— Jeanette Winterson

Capitalism is like Japanese Knotweed: nothing kills it off. If there were only two people left on the planet, one of them…

— Jeanette Winterson

It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name?…

— Jeanette Winterson

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then. If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us, and it…

— Jeanette Winterson

Sometimes we forget that if we do not encourage new work now, we will lose all touch with the work of the…

— Jeanette Winterson

What I wanted to do was to fasten my index finger and thumb at the bolts of your collar bone, push out,…

— Jeanette Winterson

Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The…

— Jeanette Winterson

If people aren't educated, they can't question. If they can't question, they can't change anything, which is great for the status quo…

— Jeanette Winterson

A character has a distinctive voice - you should be able to hear them in your head and conduct a conversation with…

— Jeanette Winterson

There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be…

— Jeanette Winterson

If you don't educate people well, then you're going to have a lot of violent, angry young men and women. You can…

— Jeanette Winterson

Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and…

— Jeanette Winterson

At bed-time I went into my room and put out the light. I didn't get undressed. I lay on my bed and…

— Jeanette Winterson

“What a strange world it is where you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. I'm talking…

— Jeanette Winterson

One of the problems with watching TV is that you've got a fairly low level of language operating all the time. Quite…

— Jeanette Winterson

It was actually books that started to make those pockets of freedom, which I hadn't otherwise experienced. I do see them as…

— Jeanette Winterson

If there's one thing I can't stand it's a hero without a cause. People like that just make trouble so that they…

— Jeanette Winterson

One just spends as much money as one has. Very peculiar that! You never actually have any money. You think, If I…

— Jeanette Winterson

The best language is always found in books because it's considered. It's a high language. Sometimes, it is complex and difficult. It's…

— Jeanette Winterson

It's not progress to take books off shelves. If one more person says this [ebooks] is the new Gutenberg, I will probably…

— Jeanette Winterson

Knowing that books are something that is hidden, that almost has that alchemical quality to it. There is a secret society in…

— Jeanette Winterson

The Anglo-American tradition is much more linear than the European tradition. If you think about writers like Borges, Calvino, Perec or Marquez,…

— Jeanette Winterson

Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us,…

— Jeanette Winterson

I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with…

— Jeanette Winterson