"Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins……" — Jeanette Winterson

"Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening."

— Jeanette Winterson

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419 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson has 419 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

To create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement.
Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there…
After every ''victory'' you have more enemies.
...to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great…
Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.
There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories…
The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.
You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved.
The secret of the world is this: the world is entirely circular and you will go round and round endlessly,…
Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we…
It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of…

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Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and… — Karen Armstrong
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins. — Arthur Baer
Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. — Mikhail Bakunin
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. — James A. Baldwin
Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story… — Clive Barker
I'm predicting that we'll finally have a computer will search my e-mail automatically and delete every message that begins with… — Scott Adams
Where annual elections end where slavery begins. — John Quincy Adams
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. — John Berger
The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops.… — Samuel Beckett
The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary… — Pope Benedict XVI
A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of… — Ruth Benedict
Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward. — Ambrose Bierce

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