If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The truth is that wherever you go, people want ideas, want language, want discussion, want space to share and to talk. The… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“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
He doubted her. You must never doubt the one you love. But they might not be telling the truth. Never mind that.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The truth is that you can divide your heart in all sorts of interesting ways - a little here, a little there,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
And when I look at a history book and think of the imaginative effort it has taken to squeeze this oozing world… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The truth is that I’ve spent all my life with my binoculars trained on the Maybe Islands, a pristine place of fantasy… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“You can’t be another person’s honesty, child, but you can be your own.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every day,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the… — 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
