1,104 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

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.

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.

August. We were arguing. You want love to be like this every day don't you? 92 degrees even in the shade.

Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python.

Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem.

Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.

I cannot assume you will understand me. It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear. Some story we must have. Stray words on crumpled paper. A weak signal into the outer space of each other. The probability of seperate worlds meeting is very small. The lure is immense. We send starships. We fall in love

Somewhere between fear and sex passion is.

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.