1,104 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

Each book is a different staging post on the writer's journey, and each book stands by itself, regardless of the writer's relationship to it.

What a strange world this is when you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo.

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

To create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement.

I choose this story above all others because it's a story I'm struggling to end.

Louise, I would gladly fire the past for you, go and not look back. I have been reckless before, never counting the cost, oblivious to the cost. Now, I've done the sums ahead. I know what it will mean to redeem myself from the accumulations of a lifetime. I know and I don't care. You set before me a space uncluttered by association. It might be a void or it might be a release. Certainly I want to take the risk. I want to take the risk because the life I have stored up is going mouldy.

When we let ourselves respond to poetry, to music, to pictures, we are clearing a space where new stories can root, in effect we are clearing a space for new stories about ourselves.

I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.

What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?