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
“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
“What sex are you?” Doesn’t matter does it? After all that’s your problem.” If I keep you, what will happen?” You’ll have… — 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
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
“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
“Time is a great deadener; people forget, get bored, grow old, go away.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What is it that you contain? The Dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia. The expanding universe opening in your gut. Are your… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Those old sayings about Give It Time, and Time is a Healer depend on just whose time it is.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
And if I say to you that I am glad of everything we have done together, and sorry that we will not… — 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
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
“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
Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you… — 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
“There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together. Forgiveness unblocks the future." (p.225)” — 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
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
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
“Most kids grow up leaving something out for Santa at Christmas time when he comes down the chimney. I used to make… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“When I met you I was moving like a blind arrow shot in time of need. I was flint-sharp, flint-primitive. I was… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the… — 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
“It takes so little time to change a lifetime and it takes a lifetime to understand the change.” — 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
“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
