World Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

“We live as best we may in a world of worms.”

— Jeanette Winterson

…only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world.

— Jeanette Winterson

I think we are worlds compressed into human form.

— Jeanette Winterson

She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.

— Jeanette Winterson

We live in a world of buy it or leave it. Love does not signify.

— Jeanette Winterson

To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.

— Jeanette Winterson

Slightest accidents open up new worlds.

— Jeanette Winterson

The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.

— Jeanette Winterson

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

— Jeanette Winterson

Nothing can be forgotten. Nothing can be lost. The universe itself is one vast memory system. Look back and you will find…

— Jeanette Winterson

I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world.

— Jeanette Winterson

When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become…

— Jeanette Winterson

In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with…

— Jeanette Winterson

I am getting much more political as I get older. It's the duty of any writer, in particular, not to stand back…

— Jeanette Winterson

Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all…

— Jeanette Winterson

There's so little wonder left in the world because we've seen everything one way or another'.

— Jeanette Winterson

I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because…

— Jeanette Winterson

They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get…

— Jeanette Winterson

Memoir ... satisfies our need for gossip and intimacy, for testimony and confessional, and in this world of spin, offers a truthful…

— Jeanette Winterson

People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom…

— Jeanette Winterson

Poets will never be the highest-paid writers in the world. Instead, poetry will go on cutting a hand-made path through the mass-market…

— Jeanette Winterson

Today we are all speeding under the golden arms of the arches into our city, into our lives, into the world that…

— Jeanette Winterson

You've got these twenty million people who call themselves the Evangelical Christians who will put their hand up and say, I believe…

— Jeanette Winterson

One day, tens of millions of years from now, someone will find me rusted into the mud of a world they have…

— Jeanette Winterson

The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is…

— Jeanette Winterson

i realize that the future, though invisible, has weight. We are in the gravitational pull of past and future. It takes huge…

— Jeanette Winterson

The secret of the world is this: the world is entirely circular and you will go round and round endlessly, never finding…

— Jeanette Winterson

The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division…

— Jeanette Winterson

Breathe in, breath out. Oxygen is carcinogenic and likely puts a limit on our life span. It would be unwise though, to…

— Jeanette Winterson

Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which…

— Jeanette Winterson

And when I look at a history book and think of the imaginative effort it has taken to squeeze this oozing world…

— Jeanette Winterson

Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include…

— Jeanette Winterson

The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.

— Jeanette Winterson

The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in…

— Jeanette Winterson

You were in my arms for the first time, and you said my name, 'Tristan.' I answered you: 'Isolde.' Isolde. The world…

— Jeanette Winterson

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his…

— Jeanette Winterson

“What a strange world this is when you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo.”

— Jeanette Winterson

I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.

— Jeanette Winterson

“She found that the whole world could be contained in one place because that place was herself. Nothing had prepared her for…

— Jeanette Winterson

In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun. This place will warm me, feed…

— Jeanette Winterson