All Jeanette Winterson Quotes
- The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We… Cannot Know
- I walked out to brood on this life of ours, which seems from birth to death to be a steady loss, disguised by sudden gains… All
- Our broken society is not born out of the triumph of the individual, but out of his effacement. He vanishes, she vanishes, ask them who… Ask
- Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every day, never believing that… Believe
- Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes you… Absolutely
- Reading is where the wild things are. Inspirational
- I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than… Big
- It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression. Cause
- Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer in for longer… Anticipate
- Make three wishes and they shall all come true. Make three hundred and I will honour every one All
- I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen. Everyone
- My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough. Close
- I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy. Cozy
- I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously. Foolish
- I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older. Deceive
- Naked is the best disguise. Best
- Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places. Access
- There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that. Creatively
- To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it. All
- Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully. All
- Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence. Art
- Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening. Begins
- I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write. Happens
- You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without… Asking
- Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I… Able