1,104 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

The crazy thing is that when we go to somebody's house, what's better than looking at their bookshelves? Nobody's ever going to say, "Can I see the index to your Kindle?" It's so depressing and so unsexy. Sure, it's there, but nobody is going to get excited by that.

The mind will not believe in death, perhaps because, as far as the mind is concerned, death never happens.

If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.

What would it have meant to be happy? What would it have meant if things had been bright, clear, good between us?

I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Life was a pre-death experience.

I lay there, stretched out, looking at the one star visible through the tiny window of the room. Only connect. How can you do that when the connections are broken?

I am getting much more political as I get older. It's the duty of any writer, in particular, not to stand back from the world.

When my husband had an affair with someone else I watched his eyes glaze over when we ate dinner together and I heard him singing to himself without me, and when he tended the garden it was not for me. He was courteous and polite; he enjoyed being at home, but in the fantasy of his home I was not the one who sat opposite him and laughed at his jokes. He didn't want to change anything; he liked his life. The only thing he wanted to change was me.