1,104 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in movement, they're always twisting back on each other. I think the straight line is such a lie.

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.' Was she mad? We had been talking figuratively. Her heart was in her body like mine. I tried to explain this to her, but she took my hand and put it against her chest. Feel for yourself.

Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it's not arrogant.

After every ''victory'' you have more enemies.

I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message in a bottle, a shout in the dark. It's saying, 'I'm here and I believe that you are somewhere and that you will answer if necessary across time, not necessarily in my lifetime.'

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.