1,104 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.

I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood.

Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.

Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells.

Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.

Trust me, I'm telling you stories.

Very few people ever manage what nature manages without effort and mostly without fail. We don't know who we are or how to function, much less how to bloom. Blind nature. Homo Sapiens. Who's kidding whom?

Life is fragmentary, and the pattern that creativity can offer is not one that is imposed, not something rigid, but rather something which can reveal the intrinsic patterns of that fragmentation. Things are in a perpetual dance, but there is an order. It's not really random at all.

History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.