1,104 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create. Just on the other side of creativity is the nuthouse – and I often notice people looking at me strangely when I am talking out loud, but there is no other way.

You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.

My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight’s not on them. But they do get somewhere.

I guess I’m afraid of not being like other people. No, that’s not true. I’m not afraid of not being like other people. I’m afraid I won’t find anybody who doesn’t mind me not being like other people. I’m not ambitious for money or power. I want to find some real way to live.

I had huge ambition for literature. I don’t see the point of doing anything if you don’t have ambition for it.

People do go back, but they don’t survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time. Such things are too much. You can salt your heart, or kill your heart, or you can choose between the two realities. There is much pain here.

With animal behavior, they’re all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.

We don’t go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves now.

I never wanted children. If I’d been deeply in love with a man and he’d wanted children, it would have been difficult.