1,104 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with it. Because they just take up so much space. I'm not under any illusions that I could have been where I am now in literary terms if I had been heterosexual. I really believe I would not be.

The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is how we all live, it’s the narrative of our lives, but adoption drops you into the story after it has started. It’s like reading a book with the first few pages missing. It’s like arriving after curtain up. The feeling that something is missing never, ever leaves you – and it can’t, and it shouldn’t, because something is missing.

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

Love ... Just Nature's way of getting one person to pay the bills for another person.

I know I've had an unusual beginning and a colourful life, but that wouldn't matter if I couldn't make it speak to other people.

There’s no story that’s the start of itself.

Love is an experiment ... what happens next is always surprising.

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.