1,104 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what’s dead. It won’t complain.

If there’s one thing I can’t stand it’s a hero without a cause. People like that just make trouble so that they can solve it.

I don’t read reviews because by then it’s too late – whatever anyone says, the book won’t change. It is written.

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.

It takes so little time to change a lifetime and it takes a lifetime to understand the change.

We’re living in a homogenized culture where everything is the same, and books are not a homogenized culture. They are extremely varied, and they’re eccentric because they are the product of an individual mind. They are not, in any way, mediated.

The woman tried to teach Winnet her language, and Winnet learned the words but not the language.

Love is vivid. I never wanted the pale version. Love is full strength. I never wanted the diluted version. I never shied away from love’s hugeness but I had no idea that love could be as reliable as the sun. The daily rising of love.

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn’t felt that.