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
“It took me a long time to realise that there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one… — 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
We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“It takes much longer to leave the psychic place than the physical place." (p.120)” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The things that I regret in my life are not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I can't believe that we have reached the end of everything. The red dust is frightening. The carbon dioxide is real. Water… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent. — 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
