Storytelling Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

11 Storytelling quotes by Jeanette Winterson

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Jeanette Winterson’s eleven concise quotes on Storytelling showcase her flair for blending personal voice with experimental form. The collection is brief, but each line offers a clear window into how she approaches the craft.

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Trust me, I'm telling you stories.

Jeanette Winterson

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“I'm telling you stories. Trust me.”

Jeanette Winterson

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

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Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing…

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What the myths say, is that you have to be the hero of your own life. You're the one who has to…

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

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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

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“Life, we imagine, is familiar enough until we begin to tell it to another. Then, observe the wonder on their faces--sometimes it…

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“Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you…

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“There it is; the light across the water. Your story. Mine. His. It has to be seen to be believed. And it…

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

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You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back…

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

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“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…

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

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You are a pool of clear water where the light plays

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“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…

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What would it have meant to be happy? What would it have meant if things had been bright, clear, good between us?

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“Mrs Ratlow was a widow, and she was head of English, but she still did all the cooking and cleaning for her two sons,…

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“I shall have nowt to talk to now the baby is boiled.”

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“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…

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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.…

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“It took me a long time to realise that there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes…

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A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and…

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“He turned away and I turned to him in vivid heat to look on the sun-dried world. The groves and towers were gone. The…

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