Jeanette Winterson Quotes
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Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.
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There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
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I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.
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I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.
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What you risk reveals what you value.
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Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.
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I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.
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It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
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I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.
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I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.
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I went outside, tripping over slabs of sunshine the size of towns. The sun was like a crowd of people, it was a party, it was music. The sun was blaring through the walls of the houses and beating down the steps. The Sun was drumming time into the stone. The sun was rhythming the day. (p. 197)
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I'm not a quitter.
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Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
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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.
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I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
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I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.
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I never cared about money.
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I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.
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The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.
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To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.
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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.
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What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.
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You say we are not one, you say truly there are two of us. Yes, there were two of us, but we were one. As for myself, I am splintered by great waves. I am coloured glass from a church window long since shattered. I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.
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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.