“Life, we imagine, is familiar enough until we begin to tell it to another. Then, observe the wonder on their faces--sometimes it… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
More than sex. More than money. You know, life is not endless is it? Cash, cars, cocaine, and girls. It's more than… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open - the only… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“How is it that one day life is orderly and you are content, a little cynical perhaps but on the whole just… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“He did not say so, but the words behind the words told me that he would rather have launched me into a… — 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
“How could I not go on talking to you? How could I not expect to see you when it's the end of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“What you are pursuing is meaning -- a meaningful life. There's the hap -- the fate, the draw that is yours, and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Your life flashes before you, flash, flash, because there's so little of it. I mean, what have you ever done that was… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Lie beside me. Let me see the division of your pores. Let me see the web of scars made by your family's… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Life is fragmentary, and the pattern that creativity can offer is not one that is imposed, not something rigid, but rather something… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Things are continually beginning again; they’re never really resolved, you know. They are only resolved temporarily. We live in a society that… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I always say to people who want to write: Live life! Don't stand on the rim, don't sit on the sidelines. Make… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Pursuing happiness, and I did, and I still do, is not at all the saem as being happy - which I think… — 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
I know from my own experience that suicide is not what it seems. Too easy to try to piece together the fragmented… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story - of course that is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I've lived my life like a serial killer; finish with one part, strangle it and move on to the next. Life in… — 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
“You had once asked me if I was afraid of death. I said I was afraid of not living. I don’t want… — 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
