Stories Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

“Stories are always true... it's the facts that mislead.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness.

— Jeanette Winterson

There’s no story that’s the start of itself.

— Jeanette Winterson

“I'm telling you stories. Trust me.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Trust me, I'm telling you stories.

— Jeanette Winterson

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.

— Jeanette Winterson

Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story.

— Jeanette Winterson

This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way…

— Jeanette Winterson

I choose this story above all others because it's a story I'm struggling to end.

— Jeanette Winterson

Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.

— Jeanette Winterson

Names are still magic; even Sharon, Karen, Darren, and Warren are magic to somebody somewhere. In fairy stories, naming is knowledge. When…

— Jeanette Winterson

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

— Jeanette Winterson

Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's…

— Jeanette Winterson

Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is…

— Jeanette Winterson

Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is…

— Jeanette Winterson

When we let ourselves respond to poetry, to music, to pictures, we are clearing a space where new stories can root, in…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open - the only…

— Jeanette Winterson

“...what he told himself on those sea-soaked nights...Others joined in and it was discovered that every light had a story-no, every light…

— Jeanette Winterson

The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is…

— Jeanette Winterson

It's only a story, you say. So it is, and the rest of life with it - creation story, love story, horror,…

— 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

I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal…

— Jeanette Winterson

I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of…

— Jeanette Winterson

Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse -- there is…

— Jeanette Winterson

Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places…

— Jeanette Winterson

“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

“Much of what I have done is left unfinished- not because I left it too soon, not because I was lazy, but…

— Jeanette Winterson

This is where the story starts, in this threadbare room. The walls are exploding. The windows have turned into telescopes. Moon and…

— Jeanette Winterson

Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all…

— Jeanette Winterson

True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just…

— Jeanette Winterson

I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather…

— Jeanette Winterson

There's something about the authenticity rather than the autobiography that makes my story and my pain move across and become your story…

— Jeanette Winterson

We are told not to privilege one story above another. All the stories must be told. Well, maybe that's true, maybe all…

— Jeanette Winterson

There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like…

— Jeanette Winterson

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

I cannot assume you will understand me. It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you…

— Jeanette Winterson

The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of…

— Jeanette Winterson

Tell me the story, Pew. . . . It was a woman. You always say that. There's always a woman somewhere, child;…

— Jeanette Winterson

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.…

— Jeanette Winterson

Words like passion and ecstasy, we learn them but they stay flat on the page. Sometimes we try to turn them over,…

— Jeanette Winterson