1,104 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.

True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just science fiction--don't believe it. Like the universe, there is no end.

do it from the heart or not at all.

Although I sometimes pose as a fight animal, I'm really a flight animal.

She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings. She knew the Eiffel Tower was a hideous symbol of phallic oppression but when ordered by her commander to detonate the lift so that no-one should unthinkingly scale an erection, her mind filled with young romantics gazing over Paris and opening aerograms that said Je t'aime.

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

What you eat is the most political thing you do every day

When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become our private worlds that we return to.

live in the space between chaos and shape. I walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into the dark pit where there is no meaning. At other times the line is so wired that it lights up the soles of my feet, gradually my whole body, until I am my own beacon, and I see then the beauty of newly created worlds, a form that is not random. A new beginning.