...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it's not arrogant. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“A writer has no use for the clock. A writer lives in an infinity of days, time without end, ploughed under.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I was only good at one thing: words. I had read more, much more, than anybody else, and I knew how words… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“He needed some sort of membrane between himself and experience, which, for him, became language.(Jeanette Winterson on T.S.Eliot)” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I am an ambitious writer – I don’t see the point of being anything, no, not anything at all, if you have… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Dinginess is death to a writer. Filth, discomfort, hunger, cold, trauma and drama, don't matter a bit.” — 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
“Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I was at a party in 1989 and Ian McEwan, Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie were sitting on a sofa wondering where… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I always say to people who want to write: Live life! Don't stand on the rim, don't sit on the sidelines. Make… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The human heart is my territory. I write about love because it’s the most important thing in the world. I write about… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The Bible writers didn't care that they were bunching together sequences some of which were historical, some preposterous, and some downright manipulative.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The unknownness of my needs frightens me. I do now know how huge they are, or how high they are, I only… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“At college, I was told there were four great women novelists in the 19th century – Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charlotte and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Eating words and listening to them rumbling in the gut is how a writer learns the acid and alkali of language. It… — 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
“I argue that it is not Woolf's remoteness that puts people off but her nearness that terrifies them. Her language is not… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Woolf worried about the childlessness from time to time, and suffered from the imposed anxiety that she was not, unlike her friend… — 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
If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening. — 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 wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Each book is a different staging post on the writer's journey, and each book stands by itself, regardless of the writer's relationship… — 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
