All Jeanette Winterson Quotes
- Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there Accumulation
- The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have… All
- Only the impossible is worth the effort. Effort
- True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just science fiction--don't believe… Allowing
- Everything is imprinted for ever with what it once was. Funny
- Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art,… All
- Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent. Always Unfinished
- Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself. Enough Hard
- Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor. All
- In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey. Book
- Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom. Allows
- We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves now. Elizabethan
- Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Differently
- I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility. Altering
- When we make a change, it's so easy to interpret our unsettledness as unhappiness, and our unhappiness as a result of having made the wrong… Across
- When I was born I became the visible corner of a folded map. The map has more than one route. More than one destination. The… Anywhere
- What you eat is the most political thing you do every day Day
- What the myths say, is that you have to be the hero of your own life. You're the one who has to take charge of… Bring
- If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you. Book
- Trust your creativity. Creativity
- What I want does exist if I dare to find it... Dare
- History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is… Admire
- Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go… Accept
- Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of modern life (that… Act
- Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells. Art