“Those old sayings about Give It Time, and Time is a Healer depend on just whose time it is.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“It takes so little time to change a lifetime and it takes a lifetime to understand the change.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Time is a player. Time is part of today, not simply a measure of its passing. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Time is not constant and one minute is not the same length as another.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning? — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Lonely cries, and she was lonely, not for friends but for a time that hadn't been violated.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“For the first time in months I felt my body slacken. I had been carrying myself like a gun, cocked, alert, ready… — 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… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“A sign of the times. But the times has so many signs that if we read them all we'd die of heartbreak.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I was angry. Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“the past is so hard to shift. It comes with us like a chaperon, standing between us and the newness of the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I read: This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy. I started to cry.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Earth is ancient now, but all knowledge is stored up in her. She keeps a record of everything that has happened since… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
She said she’d often wondered why she wanted to do some things and not do other things at all. Well, it was… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I stretched out my hands, holding the falling sun in one hand, and the climbing moon in the other, my silver and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It's great to win a few prizes early on. It helps a writer to get noticed and to get some sales. It… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“It took me a long time to realise that there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then. If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us, and it… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Creative work bridges time because the energy of art is not time-bound. If it were we should have no interest in the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“How could I not go on talking to you? How could I not expect to see you when it's the end of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
i realize that the future, though invisible, has weight. We are in the gravitational pull of past and future. It takes huge… — 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
“The more I read, the more I felt connected across time to other lives and deeper sympathies. I felt less isolated. I… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Woolf worried about the childlessness from time to time, and suffered from the imposed anxiety that she was not, unlike her friend… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“When my husband had an affair with someone else I watched his eyes glaze over when we ate dinner together and I… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Memories separated in time are often recalled side by side-there's an emotional connection that has nothing to do with the diary dates… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I told my version – faithful and invented, accurate and misremembered, shuffled in time. I told myself as hero like any shipwreck… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Pursuing happiness, and I did, and still do, is not at all the same as being happy- which I think is fleeting,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Time is a great deadener; people forget, get bored, grow old, go away.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“every moment you steal from the present is a moment you have lost for ever. There's only now.” — 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
