1,104 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

Her butler opened it for her. His name was Boredom. She said, ‘Boredom, fetch me a plaything.’ He said ‘Very good ma’am,’ and putting on his white gloves so that fingerprints would not show he tapped at my heart and I thought he said his name was Love.

I’m always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.

I don’t know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.

Each book is a different staging post on the writer’s journey, and each book stands by itself, regardless of the writer’s relationship to it.

What the myths say, is that you have to be the hero of your own life. You’re the one who has to take charge of who you are, you’re the one who has to take control. And also, you’re the one who can bring something to the community.

I didn’t mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

Make three wishes and they shall all come true. Make three hundred and I will honour every one.

Life gives you enough hard knocks so it’s unlikely you’ll stay that sure of yourself.

Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn’t matter to me.