“Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember. Lies 2: Time is a straight line. Lies 3: The difference… — 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
Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“My experience has been that times always ends. In theory, you are right, the quantum physicists are right, the religious and romantics… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Sometimes we forget that if we do not encourage new work now, we will lose all touch with the work of 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 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
“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
The secret of the world is this: the world is entirely circular and you will go round and round endlessly, never finding… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Yes, the past is another country, but one that we can visit, and once there we can bring back the things we… — 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
I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing… — 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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“every moment you steal from the present is a moment you have lost for ever. There's only now.” — 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
I realised something important: whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is… — 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
