1,104 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

...to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great that it is better to live without it (the standard model)? Or to fall into her arms fire to fire? There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value. Inside the horror of Nagasaki and Hiroshima lies the beauty of Einstein's E=MC squared

Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story.

Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.

I was the place where you anchored. I was the deep water where you could be weightless. I was the surface where you saw your own reflection. You scooped me up in your hands.

Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.