1,104 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

If I let them take away my demons, I'll have to give up what I've found.

Like all familiar objects, it had become invisible.

We are all historians in our small way.

We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes.

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to.

I think writing is a process that starts long before the writers are actually writers and probably goes on long afterward. It's rather like the way the Arabs weave rugs. They don't stop. They just cut them off at a certain spot on the loom. There is no particular beginning or end.

It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.

Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same.