There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I looked out across the Ocean, and determined to drown myself. I was up to my chin when the shout came, and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
No. Take the heart first. Then you don't feel the cold so much. The pain so much. With the heart gone, there's… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“We were to be the lightest of things, he and I, lifting each other up above the heaviness of life. If was… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Love, they say, enslaves and passion is a demon and many have been lost for love. I know this is true, but… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“On more than one occasion I have been ready to abandon my whole life for love. To alter everything that makes sense… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I wasn't getting better. I was getting worse. I did not go to the doctor because I didn't want pills. If this… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The line between life and death is a couple of inches at most. The width of a door that connects two rooms.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Here's my life - I have to mine it, farm it, trade it, tenant it, and when the lease is up it… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Life…we understand it differently at different stages. It’s what is interesting about getting older, you realize your relationship with the past is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“She found that the whole world could be contained in one place because that place was herself. Nothing had prepared her for… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The human heart is my territory. I write about love because it’s the most important thing in the world. I write about… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What the myths say, is that you have to be the hero of your own life. You're the one who has to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“When you follow a star you know you will never reach that star; rather it will guide you to where you want… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The most prosaic of us betray a belief in the inward life every time we talk about 'my body' rather than 'I. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“It was like living in a library, and that was where I had always been happiest.” — 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
