“Whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.” — 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 work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now. — 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
To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
If the sun is shining, stand in it- yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass- they have to-… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“For some, perhaps for many, books are spare time. For me, the rest of life is spare time: I wake and sleep… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Mankind, I hazard, wherever found, Civilized or Savage, cannot keep to any purpose for much length of time, except the purpose of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Unmoor the boat, we could go…downriver... History is a collection of found objects washed up through time. Goods, ideas, personalities surface towards… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
We're here, there, not here, not there, swirling like specks of dust, claiming for ourselves the rights of the universe. Being important,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“It was very bad for me that my deafness happened at around the same time as I discovered my clitoris.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Louise, I would gladly fire the past for you, go and not look back. I have been reckless before, never counting the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS) — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Regalia Mason liked to be early to meetings; it was an interesting way of making others feel uncomfortable. If the most important… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The fossil record is always there, whether or not you discover it. The brittle ghosts of the past. Memory is not like… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“You said, ‘Why do I frighten you?’ Frighten me? Yes you do frighten me. You act as though we will be together… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“There's a chance that I'm not here at all, that all the parts of me, running along all the choices I did… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“People have never had a problem disposing of the past when it gets too difficult. Flesh will burn, photos will burn, and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Atlas said, 'Must my future be so heavy?' Hera said, 'That is your present, Atlas. Your future hardens every day, but it… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can… — 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
