Quotes By 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
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
The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
Jeanette Winterson
I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
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
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
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
With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.
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
Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
Jeanette Winterson
London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.
Jeanette Winterson
Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
Jeanette Winterson
To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.
Jeanette Winterson
I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.
Jeanette Winterson