1,104 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.

Mi piace il modo in cui i gatti amano stare un po' dentro e un po' fuori, per assecondare sia il loro lato domestico sia quello selvatico, e anch'io mi sento selvatica e domestica. Posso stare in casa, ma solo se la porta è aperta.

There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is possible to have a thought without a feeling. It isn't. When we are objective we are subjective too. When we are neutral we are involved. When we say ‘I think’ we don't leave our emotions outside the door. To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury

Asla yalan söylemeyin. İçinizde hiçbir şey kıpırdamadıysa bir şeyin sizi etkilediğini asla söylemeyin. Siz bir kitabı elinize alabilirsiniz ama bir kitap sizi odanın öbür ucuna fırlatabilir. Bir kitap sizi rahat koltuğunuzdan alıp deniz kenarındaki kayalıklara taşıyabilir. Bir kitap sizi kocanızdan, karınızdan, çocuklarınızdan, bütün benliğinizden ayırabilir. Ömür boyu çektiğiniz bir acıyı dindirebilir. Kitaplar kinetiktir ve her devasa güç gibi, onu elinizde tutarken dikkatli olmanız gerekir.

Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels.

Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.