1,104 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

The universe has no sides, no end, can't be mapped. Enough to make a man talk about God, make a man superstitious and worship an idol. The science never gets as far as the strangeness.

This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in.

Sometimes we forget that if we do not encourage new work now, we will lose all touch with the work of the past we claim to love. If art is not living in a continuous present, it is living in a museum, only those working now can complete the circuit between the past, present and future energies we call art.

It may be that there was no reason or purpose, for mankind must always be finding reasons where there are none, and comfort in a purpose that hardly exists.

I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.

Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be.

I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.

The only selfish life is a timid one.

In therapy , the therapist acts as a container for what we daren't let out, because it is so scary, or what lets itself out every so often, and lays waste to our lives.