Thinking Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

I think we are worlds compressed into human form.

— Jeanette Winterson

Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.

— Jeanette Winterson

The free man never thinks of escape.

— Jeanette Winterson

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

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

I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me…

— Jeanette Winterson

I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.

— Jeanette Winterson

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

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

Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of…

— Jeanette Winterson

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

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

Odd to think that the piece of you I know best is already dead. The cells on the surface of your skin…

— Jeanette Winterson

I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to…

— 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

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

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

And when I look at a history book and think of the imaginative effort it has taken to squeeze this oozing world…

— Jeanette Winterson

Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few…

— Jeanette Winterson

There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic,…

— Jeanette Winterson

...to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great that it…

— Jeanette Winterson

When my friend Melot set the trap, I think I knew it. I turned to death full face, as I had turned…

— Jeanette Winterson

“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

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

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

There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be…

— Jeanette Winterson

One just spends as much money as one has. Very peculiar that! You never actually have any money. You think, If I…

— Jeanette Winterson

We have a generation of kids who may never see a bookshelf or never see books in houses. What are they going…

— 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

Why is the mind incapable of deciding its own subject matter? Why when we desperately want to think of one thing to…

— Jeanette Winterson

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

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

When we learn to read, it's a real product of civilization and a civilized society. It affects your brain. It affects the…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Going back after a long time will make you mad, because the people you left behind do not like to think of…

— Jeanette Winterson

I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with…

— Jeanette Winterson

What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how…

— Jeanette Winterson

Explore me' you said and I collected my ropes, flasks and maps, expecting to be back home soon. I dropped into the…

— Jeanette Winterson

What kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me. Not to think of you in the…

— 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

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