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
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
the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
There's so little wonder left in the world because we've seen everything one way or another'. — 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
This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I have met a great many people on their way towards God and I wonder why they have chosen to look for… — 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
I think writing is a process that starts long before the writers are actually writers and probably goes on long afterward. It's… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What I wanted to do was to fasten my index finger and thumb at the bolts of your collar bone, push out,… — 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
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
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
We're living in a homogenized culture where everything is the same, and books are not a homogenized culture. They are extremely varied,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Seeing one's books on the shelf tells you so much about the way somebody has, over the years, put together their private… — 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
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
The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more… — 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
I like the way the morning can be stormy and the afternoon clear and sparkly as a jewel in the water. Put… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
reading is not a passive act. It's a creative act. It's a relationship between the writer and a person the writer will… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
In this life you have to be your own hero. By that I mean you have to win whatever it is that… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how… — 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
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
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
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
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
Loneliness isn't about being by yourself. That's fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. Loneliness is about finding a landing-place, or… — 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
In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way… — 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
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
For me, the most painful thing is the thought of shelves without books. This is the problem with the digital thing. I… — 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
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
“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
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
I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“It took me a long time to realise that there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
“He turned away and I turned to him in vivid heat to look on the sun-dried world. The groves and towers were gone. The… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
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