Quotes By Jeanette Winterson
My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.
Jeanette Winterson
I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
Jeanette Winterson
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 create.
Jeanette Winterson
Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.
Jeanette Winterson
I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.
Jeanette Winterson
The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
Jeanette Winterson
I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.
Jeanette Winterson
I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
Jeanette Winterson
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
Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.
Jeanette Winterson
I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.
Jeanette Winterson
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
If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
Jeanette Winterson
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
Jeanette Winterson
The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.
Jeanette Winterson
When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.
Jeanette Winterson