All Jeanette Winterson Quotes
- Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't. Confidence
- I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people. Believe
- I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed. Alone
- What you risk reveals what you value. Inspirational
- I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame. Hate
- The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home. Come Home
- Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me. Call
- Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world. Academic
- Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens. Book
- I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written. Anyone
- I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle. Heterosexuality
- I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion. Caused
- Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life. Find
- We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then. All
- Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know. Inspirational
- With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy. All
- However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is… Become Superior
- They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our… Ever Get
- The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has… Anywhere
- As your lover describes you, so you are. Describes
- the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. Buddhist
- The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark. Continuous
- Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then… All
- Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is… Accumulation
- You were in my arms for the first time, and you said my name, 'Tristan.' I answered you: 'Isolde.' Isolde. The world became a word. Answered