I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
If there's one thing I can't stand it's a hero without a cause. People like that just make trouble so that they… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
We're in a strange situation where people either don't read at all or they read a lot. There's a huge gap in… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I care about doing the work as best as I can do, and that it should go on reaching people. It's not… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
As people get older they have these rigid patterns that they impose on themselves, and it kills them. They become dull, they… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
One thing I am certain of, I do not want to be betrayed, but thats quite hard to say casually, at the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The people who decided in their wisdom that we're all going to go over to ebooks, they are not readers. These are… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The trouble is that when most people are apathetic ordinary people ... have to go too far, have to ruin their lives… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Very few people ever manage what nature manages without effort and mostly without fail. We don't know who we are or how… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create. Just on the other… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Capitalism is like Japanese Knotweed: nothing kills it off. If there were only two people left on the planet, one of them… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I know I've had an unusual beginning and a colourful life, but that wouldn't matter if I couldn't make it speak to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
If you don't educate people well, then you're going to have a lot of violent, angry young men and women. You can… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take… — 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
