Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I needed words because unhappy families are conspiracies of silence.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I had lines inside me-a string of guiding lights. I had language.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The woman tried to teach Winnet her language, and Winnet learned the words but not the language.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I was only good at one thing: words. I had read more, much more, than anybody else, and I knew how words… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“He needed some sort of membrane between himself and experience, which, for him, became language.(Jeanette Winterson on T.S.Eliot)” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Words kept salted when they cannot be found fresh. Words kept fresh when they cannot be found clean. The words go deeper,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Turn down the daily noise and at first there is the relief of silence. And then, very quietly, as quiet as light,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I put the words into a flask and flung them out to sea. Flung them far out from me, made through myself,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way… — 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
“In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at until you understood them, they couldn't change halfway through… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few… — 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
Earth is ancient now, but all knowledge is stored up in her. She keeps a record of everything that has happened since… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Eating words and listening to them rumbling in the gut is how a writer learns the acid and alkali of language. It… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“To say exactly what one means, even to one's own private satisfaction, is difficult. To say exactly what one means and to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“When I see a word held hostage to manhood I have to rescue it. Sweet trembling word, locked in a tower, tired… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
You were in my arms for the first time, and you said my name, 'Tristan.' I answered you: 'Isolde.' Isolde. The world… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Can I? Can I speak my mind or am I dumb inside a borrowed language, captive of bastard thoughts? What of me… — 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
