People Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.

— Jeanette Winterson

I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first.

— Jeanette Winterson

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

— Jeanette Winterson

I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

— Jeanette Winterson

I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.

— Jeanette Winterson

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

— Jeanette Winterson

I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.

— Jeanette Winterson

I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because…

— Jeanette Winterson

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they…

— Jeanette Winterson

One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums…

— Jeanette Winterson

You have to engage with people who are different from you and try to work with their thinking and their mind. That's…

— Jeanette Winterson

London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of…

— Jeanette Winterson

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

If people aren't educated, they can't question. If they can't question, they can't change anything, which is great for the status quo…

— Jeanette Winterson

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

People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom…

— Jeanette Winterson

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

Some people are happy when they are at the sea; I'm happy when I'm standing in front of a shelf of books.…

— Jeanette Winterson

One thing I am certain of, I do not want to be betrayed, but thats quite hard to say casually, at the…

— Jeanette Winterson

You've got these twenty million people who call themselves the Evangelical Christians who will put their hand up and say, I believe…

— Jeanette Winterson

The trouble is that when most people are apathetic ordinary people ... have to go too far, have to ruin their lives…

— Jeanette Winterson

As people get older they have these rigid patterns that they impose on themselves, and it kills them. They become dull, they…

— Jeanette Winterson

What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts…

— Jeanette Winterson

I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a…

— Jeanette Winterson

I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy…

— Jeanette Winterson

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are…

— Jeanette Winterson

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

Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include…

— Jeanette Winterson

We're a lukewarm people for all our feast days and hard work. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched.…

— Jeanette Winterson

In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons…

— Jeanette Winterson

People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time. Such things are too…

— Jeanette Winterson

I have met a great many people on their way towards God and I wonder why they have chosen to look for…

— Jeanette Winterson

When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself…

— Jeanette Winterson

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

Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take…

— Jeanette Winterson

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

I will do whatever I have to do to reach people with the things I believe are important. Life is too short…

— Jeanette Winterson

Capitalism is like Japanese Knotweed: nothing kills it off. If there were only two people left on the planet, one of them…

— Jeanette Winterson

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

— Jeanette Winterson

Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't…

— Jeanette Winterson