Jeanette Winterson Quotes
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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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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.
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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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I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.
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London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.
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Why is the measure of love... loss? pg.9
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One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life.
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It is easy to be selfish. It is hard to love who I am. No wonder I am surprised if you do. (p. 199)
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I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.
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I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
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The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
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Only the impossible is worth the effort.
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I felt as if I had blundered into someone else's life by chance, discovered I wanted to stay, then blundered back into my own, without a clue, a hint, or a way of finishing the story.
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Naked is the best disguise.
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If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.
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We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.
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Somewhere between fear and sex passion is. The way there is sudden. The way out is worse.
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In the West, we avoid painful encounters with art by trivialising it, or by familiarising it. Our present obsession with the past has the double advantage of making new work seem raw and rough compared to the cosy patina of tradition, whilst refusing tradition its vital connection to what is happening now.
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Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.
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Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.
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Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
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Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
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I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.
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I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.