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
When I was born, my father wanted to drown me, but my mother persuaded him to let me live in disguise, to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
One just spends as much money as one has. Very peculiar that! You never actually have any money. You think, If I… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sometimes we forget that if we do not encourage new work now, we will lose all touch with the work of the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
A character has a distinctive voice - you should be able to hear them in your head and conduct a conversation with… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then. If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us, and it… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What I wanted to do was to fasten my index finger and thumb at the bolts of your collar bone, push out,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Knowing that books are something that is hidden, that almost has that alchemical quality to it. There is a secret society in… — 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
Capitalism is like Japanese Knotweed: nothing kills it off. If there were only two people left on the planet, one of 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
