Jeanette Winterson Quotes
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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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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.
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The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
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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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Why is the measure of love... loss? pg.9
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Naked is the best disguise.
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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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Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.
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We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.
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There are more than two chances– many more. I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance. (p.38)
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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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Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.
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I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.
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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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I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
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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 never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.
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The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.
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Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.
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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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He doesn't understand I want the freedom to make my own mistakes.
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But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.
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Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.