Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Why is the mind incapable of deciding its own subject matter? Why when we desperately want to think of one thing to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think of love as a force of nature-as strog as the sun, as necessary, as impersonal, as gigantic, as impossible, as… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
One just spends as much money as one has. Very peculiar that! You never actually have any money. You think, If I… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
We have a generation of kids who may never see a bookshelf or never see books in houses. What are they going… — 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
We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
There's a whole generation growing up thinking you shouldn't seek knowledge for its own sake, and that theatre and art and books… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When my friend Melot set the trap, I think I knew it. I turned to death full face, as I had turned… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“It’s better if I think of my life like that – part miracle, part madness. It’s better if I accept that I… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
reading is not a passive act. It's a creative act. It's a relationship between the writer and a person the writer will… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I miss God. I miss the company of someone utterly loyal. I still don't think of God as my betrayer. The servants… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It was actually books that started to make those pockets of freedom, which I hadn't otherwise experienced. I do see them as… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Going back after a long time will make you mad, because the people you left behind do not like to think of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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
Yes, we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me. Not to think of you in the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, 'more than likely, that thing will happen.' She tapped her head. 'It's… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I don't own my emotions unless I can think about them. I am not afraid of feeling but I am afraid of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
...to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great that it… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message… — 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
Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Odd to think that the piece of you I know best is already dead. The cells on the surface of your skin… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think writing is a process that starts long before the writers are actually writers and probably goes on long afterward. It's… — 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
![“People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom of choice, but we've never been [nothing] more than a nation of robots. Everybody is seduced by corporate culture.” quote by Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3f4/jeanette-winterson-166_choices_people-being-encouraged-to-make-up-their_1764884.jpg)
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![“Yes, we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often…” quote by Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e87/jeanette-winterson-166_bother_yes-we-are-friends-and-i-do-like-to-pass_771703.jpg)
