All Jeanette Winterson Quotes
- I was the place where you anchored. I was the deep water where you could be weightless. I was the surface where you saw your… Anchored
- I go on writing so that I will always have something to read. Go
- When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself. Fell
- I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people. Been
- [Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination. Doses
- Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world. Another World
- Nothing can be forgotten. Nothing can be lost. The universe itself is one vast memory system. Look back and you will find the beginnings of… Beginnings
- There's no such thing as effortless beauty - you should know that. There's no effort which is not beautiful - lifting a heavy stone or… All
- The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is how we all… Adoption
- I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in… All
- I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are… Alive
- Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door. Door
- Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a… Book
- I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must… Changing
- Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the… All
- And if I say to you that I am glad of everything we have done together, and sorry that we will not be here together… Beautiful
- I don't want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. The only selfish life is a timid one. To hold back,… Best
- I don't want to conquer you; I just want to climb you. Climb
- I can't do it. I've been here before and it's not a room with a view. The only power I have is the negative power… All
- The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I find something of love's nature.… All
- No. Take the heart first. Then you don't feel the cold so much. The pain so much. With the heart gone, there's no reason to… Ahead
- Life was a pre-death experience. Death
- your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before you, I replied upon it, it had seen active service and… Active
- Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which involves both expansion… Allowed
- Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you… Born