Jeanette Winterson Quotes


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 knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it? Jeanette Winterson Inspirational 143
In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance. Jeanette Winterson Space 123
Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone. Jeanette Winterson Time 108
Part broken part whole you begin again. from Why books seem shockproof against change. THE TIMES BOOKS Jeanette Winterson Change 106
He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it. Jeanette Winterson Lighthousekeeping 98
I believe in communication books communicate ideas and make bridges between people. Jeanette Winterson communication 96
To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown. Jeanette Winterson Society 96
Our own front door can be a wonderful thing or a sight we dread rarely is it only a door. Jeanette Winterson Sadness 87
I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness. Jeanette Winterson Change 87
I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written. Jeanette Winterson Change 86
There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value. Jeanette Winterson Risk 86
The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear. Jeanette Winterson World 84
Yes the stories are dangerous she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back Jeanette Winterson Reading 84
Every moment you steal from the present is a moment youve lost forever. There is only now. Jeanette Winterson Passion 84
The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home. Jeanette Winterson Home 78
Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places. Jeanette Winterson Experience 78
I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility. Jeanette Winterson Art 74
If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you. Jeanette Winterson Change 73
I never cared about money. Jeanette Winterson Money 71
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 a very cleansing experience. Jeanette Winterson Experience 70
Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement. Jeanette Winterson Marriage 69
I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write. Jeanette Winterson Women 69
Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence. Jeanette Winterson Art 69
The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark. Jeanette Winterson Darkness 68
I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me imagination and desire are very close. Jeanette Winterson Dream 67
Six books my mother didnt want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books that I put myself inside them for safe keeping. Jeanette Winterson Reading 64
Love they say enslaves and passion is a demon and many have been lost for love. I know this is true but I know too that without love we grope the tunnels of our lives and never see the sun. Jeanette Winterson Passion 60
Are we all living like this Two lives the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets Jeanette Winterson Reality 59
In the library I felt better words you could trust and look at till you understood them they couldnt change half way through a sentence like people so it was easier to spot a lie. Jeanette Winterson Library 57
When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself. Jeanette Winterson Self 57
She was a monster but she was my monster. Jeanette Winterson Monsters 56
I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to. Jeanette Winterson Women 56
I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed. Jeanette Winterson Pet 55
I was at a party in 1989 and Ian McEwan Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie were sitting on a sofa wondering where the next generation of great British writers would come from. As we talked it became clear they had never read a word by me. Jeanette Winterson Feminism 54
Books and doors are the same thing. You open them and you go through into another world. Jeanette Winterson Reading 51
Islands are metaphors of the heart no matter what poet says otherwise. Jeanette Winterson Poet 50
I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject. Jeanette Winterson Hurt 50
Fiction and poetry are doses medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination. Jeanette Winterson Imagination 48
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? Jeanette Winterson Time 47
Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth. Jeanette Winterson Pain 47
As your lover describes you, so you are. Jeanette Winterson Love 46
Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and redivided like mercury then gathered up only at the last moment. Jeanette Winterson Passion 44
To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead. Jeanette Winterson Emotions 43
If you think about something for long enough she explained more than likely that thing will happen. She tapped her head. Its all in the mind. Jeanette Winterson Kindlehighlight 43
Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there. Jeanette Winterson Obsession 42
When you are bornwhat you are born into the place the history of the place how that history mates with your own stamps who you are whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say. Jeanette Winterson Home 42
...there are two kinds of writing the one you write and the one that writes you. Jeanette Winterson Attitude 42
I knew it like destiny and at the same time I knew it as choice. Jeanette Winterson Destiny 41
We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we dont. Jeanette Winterson Emotions 40
Fiction and poetry are medicines theyre doses and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination. Jeanette Winterson Fiction 39

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