1,104 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

Life has never been All or Nothing- it’s All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.

Y’know, Nature’s unpredictable – that’s why we had to tame her. Maybe we went too far, but in principle we made the right decision.

Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it’s not arrogant.

I want you to come to me without a past. Those lines you’ve learned, forget them. Forget that you’ve been here before in other bedrooms in other places. Come to me new. Never say you love me until that day when you have proved it.

Stories are always true... it’s the facts that mislead.

A character has a distinctive voice – you should be able to hear them in your head and conduct a conversation with them while you’re out walking. If the answers surprise you, you know it’s the character speaking and not you.

I would never pull down a church! I adore churches. It is what happens inside them that I detest.

There’s something about the authenticity rather than the autobiography that makes my story and my pain move across and become your story and your pain.

I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can’t give up love. Maybe it’s the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me.