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
I can't catch her by copying her, I can't draw her with a borrowed stencil. She is all the things a lover… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
A character has a distinctive voice - you should be able to hear them in your head and conduct a conversation with… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
He doubted her. You must never doubt the one you love. But they might not be telling the truth. Never mind that.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as effortless beauty - you should know that. There's no effort which is not beautiful - lifting a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Cheating is easy. There's no swank to infidelity. To borrow against the trust someone has placed in you costs nothing at first.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely… — 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
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
Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
St Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I struggled in my mind with all kinds of defenses. Should I be hurt? Surprised? Should I laugh it off? I wanted… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The Anglo-American tradition is much more linear than the European tradition. If you think about writers like Borges, Calvino, Perec or Marquez,… — 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
