1,104 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.

Age is information failure. The body loses fluency.

My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.

The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.

One just spends as much money as one has. Very peculiar that! You never actually have any money. You think, If I had this much money ten years ago, I would have thought I was amazingly rich, but I still manage to spend it all and not have any left.

I care about doing the work as best as I can do, and that it should go on reaching people. It's not about fame and it's not about me. It's about creating something that might allow someone else to create something.

The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.