1,104 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

The people who decided in their wisdom that we’re all going to go over to ebooks, they are not readers. These are technical people. These are people who think that somehow this is progress. It isn’t. It’s regressive.

I am getting much more political as I get older. It’s the duty of any writer, in particular, not to stand back from the world.

True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just science fiction – don’t believe it. Like the universe, there is no end.

I have a head for heights it’s true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many.

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.

What if?’ has no power against ‘What if not?’ The not of you is unbearable. I must have you.

Destiny is a worrying concept. I don’t want to be fated, I want to choose.

I don’t know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood.

When I say ‘I will be true to you’ I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.