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
In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
And so, from the first, we separated our pleasure. She lay on the rug and I lay at right angles to her… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
At bed-time I went into my room and put out the light. I didn't get undressed. I lay on my bed and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
We're in a strange situation where people either don't read at all or they read a lot. There's a huge gap in… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies – unconscious strategies – to keep those feelings away.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
He: What’s the matter with you? Me: Nothing. Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly numbing my soul. Caught by nothing,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be in the teeming mass of the working class.[...] I didn't want to live and die in the… — 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
Love ... Just Nature's way of getting one person to pay the bills for another person. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create. Just on the other… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Capitalism is like Japanese Knotweed: nothing kills it off. If there were only two people left on the planet, one of them… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When we learn to read, it's a real product of civilization and a civilized society. It affects your brain. It affects the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
If you don't educate people well, then you're going to have a lot of violent, angry young men and women. You can… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The best language is always found in books because it's considered. It's a high language. Sometimes, it is complex and difficult. It's… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become… — 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
