1,104 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

We did photograph albums, best dresses, favourite novels, and once someone's own novel. It was about a week in a telephone box with a pair of pyjamas called Adolf Hitler. The heroine was a piece of string with a knot in it.

Rights begin where love ends. Shall we argue over who is the most to blame?

El perro corría al lado de chico, y contempló en el cielo despejado los perros estelares, fríos y bellos, y supo que, pidas lo que pidas, no se puede pedir nada mejor que el amor

What is your story sir? I said. That is the dilemma, he replied. I do not know if I am the teller or the tale.

our outside loo, known as the Betty, was a good loo; whitewashed and compact with a flashlight hanging behind the door. I smuggled books in there to read them in secret, claiming constipation.

I have had a lot to put up with," she said, looking meaningfully at me. "I know the Bible tells us to turn the other cheek but there are only so many cheeks in a day.

Oxford was not a conspiracy of silence as far as women were concerned; it was a conspiracy of ignorance.

I have a head for heights it's true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many.