1,104 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will always make you angry, the one you can’t be logical about.

History is not a suicide note – it is a record of our survival.

I want to be an art-hero – I want to change the form of the novel.

I don’t see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as part of the human condition and part of the continuum of writers.

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn’t change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

I say I’m in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. LIke genius she is ignorant of what she does.

Trust me, I’m telling you stories.

You’re never alone with a book, are you? It’s a dialogue.

I have music. Music is the world inside me. I am a performer, but whether or not I perform, the music is there.