“After nine nights must come ten and every desperate meeting only leaves you desperate for another. There is never enough to eat,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Don't you think it's strange that life, described as so rich and full, a camel-trail of adventure, should shrink to this coin-sized… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The pursuit of happiness is more elusive, it is life long and not goal-centered. Whant you are pusuing is meaning - a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I walked out to brood on this life of ours, which seems from birth to death to be a steady loss, disguised… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
She said she’d often wondered why she wanted to do some things and not do other things at all. Well, it was… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“You'll get over it...' It's the cliches that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
There's a whole generation growing up thinking you shouldn't seek knowledge for its own sake, and that theatre and art and books… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Much of what I have done is left unfinished- not because I left it too soon, not because I was lazy, but… — 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
What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I am short, so I like the little guy/underdog stories, but they are not straightforwardly about one size versus another. Think about,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
In this life you have to be your own hero. By that I mean you have to win whatever it is that… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I am not a fan of supermarkets and I hate shopping there, even for things I can't get elsewhere, like cat food… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I will do whatever I have to do to reach people with the things I believe are important. Life is too short… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“But where was God now, with heaven full of astronauts, and the Lord overthrown? I miss God. I miss the company of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets? — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“It’s better if I think of my life like that – part miracle, part madness. It’s better if I accept that I… — 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
