1,104 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

When I was born I became the visible corner of a folded map. The map has more than one route. More than one destination. The map that is the unfolding self is not exactly leading anywhere. The arrow that says YOU ARE HERE is your first coordinate. There is a lot that you can't change when you are a kid. But you can pack for the journey...

Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.

There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.

I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.

I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.

It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of our own unconscious processes.

She had made him possible. In that sense she was his god. Like God, she was neglected.

Y'know, Nature's unpredictable -- that's why we had to tame her. Maybe we went too far, but in principle we made the right decision.

I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. LIke genius she is ignorant of what she does.