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I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.
— Jeanette Winterson
Babies are frightening raw tyrants whose only kingdom is their own body. — Jeanette Winterson
Writers are often exiles, outsiders, runaways and castaways.
— Jeanette Winterson
Saddest of all are the woman who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue.
— Jeanette Winterson
Sometimes you have to accept that your heart knows what to do
— Jeanette Winterson
Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.
— Jeanette Winterson
It is not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between them.
— Jeanette Winterson
I have ridden out all the storms," said Shakespeare, "even the ones I wrote myself. Here, look, it begins ...
— Jeanette Winterson
Their throats were bare for God.
— Jeanette Winterson
As he turned inwards she turned outwards, but while he wore his intensity like a garment, she slept in hers.
— Jeanette Winterson
Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.
— Jeanette Winterson
In the modern world there was so much safety that safety had become the chief source of danger.
— Jeanette Winterson
... only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world.
— Jeanette Winterson
The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.
— Jeanette Winterson
The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something.
— Jeanette Winterson
I can change the story. I am the story.
— Jeanette Winterson
It could be that this record set before you now is a fiction.
— Jeanette Winterson
To me, these days will never end. I am always there, in that room with her, or if not I, the imprint of myself - my fossil-love — Jeanette Winterson
I would be tender as the night that covers up your foolishness and mine.
— Jeanette Winterson
Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided likemercury then gathered up only at the last moment. — Jeanette Winterson
Time is a great deadener; people forget, get bored, grow old, go away.
— Jeanette Winterson
History is a madman's museum.
— Jeanette Winterson
I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me to write at all.
— 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
There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming.
— Jeanette Winterson
The past is a grenade that explodes when thrown.
— Jeanette Winterson
It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.
— Jeanette Winterson
This is a quantum universe,' said Spike, 'neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene.
— Jeanette Winterson
Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.
— Jeanette Winterson
Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.
— Jeanette Winterson
Why do humans need answers? Partly I suppose because without one, almost any one, the question itself soon sounds silly.
— Jeanette Winterson
Oxford was not a conspiracy of silence as far as women were concerned; it was a conspiracy of ignorance.
— Jeanette Winterson
When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun.
— Jeanette Winterson
We are all historians in our small way.
— Jeanette Winterson
I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.
— Jeanette Winterson
We were in Ireland. Was there ever a country so damp? I had to wring out my mind to think clearly. I was a morning mist of confusion.
— Jeanette Winterson
I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.
— Jeanette Winterson
She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.
— Jeanette Winterson
I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.
— Jeanette Winterson
The power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.
— Jeanette Winterson
Trust me, I'm telling you stories ... I can change the story. I am the story.
— Jeanette Winterson
I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.
— Jeanette Winterson
Don't mix your heart with your liver.
— Jeanette Winterson
What we notice in stories is the nearness of the wound to the gift.
— Jeanette Winterson
Passion is not such an emotion as a destiny.
— Jeanette Winterson
My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.
— Jeanette Winterson
Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.
— Jeanette Winterson
When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.
— Jeanette Winterson
You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved.
— Jeanette Winterson
Everyone knows a homosexual is no closer to being a woman than a rhinoceros.
— Jeanette Winterson
And what is enlightenment anyway but delusions we can live with?
— Jeanette Winterson
She looked at me like I was crazy. Most of my lovers do, and that's partly why they love me, and partly why they leave
— Jeanette Winterson
Why is it that human beings are allowed to grow up without the necessary apparatus to make sound ethical decisions?
— Jeanette Winterson
I was not so sure but too tired and too relieved to go further that night. To reach one another again had been far enough.
— Jeanette Winterson
I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking.
— Jeanette Winterson
The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
— Jeanette Winterson
We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel.
— Jeanette Winterson
I decided to apply to read English at the University of Oxford because it was the most impossible thing I could do.
— Jeanette Winterson
When you are a solitary kid you find an imaginary friend.
— Jeanette Winterson
They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.
— Jeanette Winterson
The hard-bound space hides the vulnerable self.
— Jeanette Winterson
Can anyone deny that we are haunted? What is it that crouches under the myths we have made? Always the physical presence of something split off.
— Jeanette Winterson
It takes much longer to leave the psychic place than the physical place. (p.120)
— Jeanette Winterson
I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.
— Jeanette Winterson
The moment has been waiting the way the top step of the stairs waits for the sleepwalker.
— Jeanette Winterson
I need the dark places to get outside of common sense
— Jeanette Winterson
I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.
— Jeanette Winterson
What you think is the heart might well be another organ.
— Jeanette Winterson
There must be some part of Man that is more than his daily round. Some part of him that will use his profit on a matter of no profit.
— Jeanette Winterson
I thought of my often-dream where Time poured the fishes into the sky and the sky was full of star fish; stella maris of the upper air.
— Jeanette Winterson
You're never alone with a book, are you? It's a dialogue.
— Jeanette Winterson
In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead.
— 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
There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.
— Jeanette Winterson
Trust me, I'm telling you stories.
— Jeanette Winterson
Like all familiar objects, it had become invisible.
— Jeanette Winterson
Well done, my fine fellow out of my womb. What have you gained? Nothing! And oh, what have you lost? Everything!
— Jeanette Winterson
It doesn't have to be like that but mostly it is.
— Jeanette Winterson
Perhaps it is true that the world is made new again every day but our minds are not. The clamp that holds me will not let me go.
— Jeanette Winterson
Passion is for holidays, not homecoming.
— Jeanette Winterson
The important things happen by chance. Only the rest gets planned.
— Jeanette Winterson
I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood.
— Jeanette Winterson
You were loved then and you are loved now. Isn't that enough?
— Jeanette Winterson
It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
— Jeanette Winterson
Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.
— Jeanette Winterson
I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.
— Jeanette Winterson
She is a maze where I got lost years ago, and now find the way out. She is the missing map. She is the place that I am.
— Jeanette Winterson
Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.
— Jeanette Winterson
The photographer frames the shot; writers frame their world
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A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through.
— Jeanette Winterson
The words come at my call but who calls whom?
— Jeanette Winterson
Fall for me, as an apple falls, as rain falls, because you must. Use gravity to anchor your desire.
— Jeanette Winterson
Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
— Jeanette Winterson
The only selfish life is a timid one.
— Jeanette Winterson
Nothing has an unlikely quality. It is heavy.
— Jeanette Winterson
Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.
— Jeanette Winterson
Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!
— Jeanette Winterson
Reading is a rendezvous with your soul.
— Jeanette Winterson
Love ... Just Nature's way of getting one person to pay the bills for another person.
— Jeanette Winterson
A precise emotion seeks a precise expression.
— Jeanette Winterson