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I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted. — Jeanette Winterson

Babies are frightening
raw tyrants whose only kingdom is their own body. — Jeanette Winterson

Writers are often exiles, outsiders, runaways and castaways. — Jeanette Winterson

Saddest of all are the woman who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue. — Jeanette Winterson

Sometimes you have to accept that your heart knows what to do — Jeanette Winterson

Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation. — Jeanette Winterson

It is not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between them. — Jeanette Winterson

I have ridden out all the storms," said Shakespeare, "even the ones I wrote myself. Here, look, it begins ... — Jeanette Winterson

Their throats were bare for God. — Jeanette Winterson

As he turned inwards she turned outwards, but while he wore his intensity like a garment, she slept in hers. — Jeanette Winterson

Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie. — Jeanette Winterson

In the modern world there was so much safety that safety had become the chief source of danger. — Jeanette Winterson

... only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world. — Jeanette Winterson

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark. — Jeanette Winterson

The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something. — Jeanette Winterson

I can change the story. I am the story. — Jeanette Winterson

It could be that this record set before you now is a fiction. — Jeanette Winterson

To me, these days will never end. I am always there, in that room with her,
or if not I, the imprint of myself - my fossil-love — Jeanette Winterson

I would be tender as the night that covers up your foolishness and mine. — Jeanette Winterson

Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided like
mercury then gathered up only at the last moment. — Jeanette Winterson

Time is a great deadener; people forget, get bored, grow old, go away. — Jeanette Winterson

History is a madman's museum. — Jeanette Winterson

I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me to write at all. — Jeanette Winterson

I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult. — Jeanette Winterson

There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. — Jeanette Winterson

The past is a grenade that explodes when thrown. — Jeanette Winterson

It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between. — Jeanette Winterson

This is a quantum universe,' said Spike, 'neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene. — Jeanette Winterson

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world. — Jeanette Winterson

Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped. — Jeanette Winterson

Why do humans need answers? Partly I suppose because without one, almost any one, the question itself soon sounds silly. — Jeanette Winterson

Oxford was not a conspiracy of silence as far as women were concerned; it was a conspiracy of ignorance. — Jeanette Winterson

When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun. — Jeanette Winterson

We are all historians in our small way. — Jeanette Winterson

I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping. — Jeanette Winterson

We were in Ireland. Was there ever a country so damp? I had to wring out my mind to think clearly. I was a morning mist of confusion. — Jeanette Winterson

I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium. — Jeanette Winterson

She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world. — Jeanette Winterson

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

The power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work. — Jeanette Winterson

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

I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it. — Jeanette Winterson

Don't mix your heart with your liver. — Jeanette Winterson

What we notice in stories is the nearness of the wound to the gift. — Jeanette Winterson

Passion is not such an emotion as a destiny. — Jeanette Winterson

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected. — Jeanette Winterson

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't. — Jeanette Winterson

When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free. — Jeanette Winterson

You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved. — Jeanette Winterson

Everyone knows a homosexual is no closer to being a woman than a rhinoceros. — Jeanette Winterson

And what is enlightenment anyway but delusions we can live with? — Jeanette Winterson

She looked at me like I was crazy. Most of my lovers do, and that's partly why they love me, and partly why they leave — Jeanette Winterson

Why is it that human beings are allowed to grow up without the necessary apparatus to make sound ethical decisions? — Jeanette Winterson

I was not so sure but too tired and too relieved to go further that night. To reach one another again had been far enough. — Jeanette Winterson

I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking. — Jeanette Winterson

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home. — Jeanette Winterson

We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel. — Jeanette Winterson

I decided to apply to read English at the University of Oxford because it was the most impossible thing I could do. — Jeanette Winterson

When you are a solitary kid you find an imaginary friend. — Jeanette Winterson

They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad. — Jeanette Winterson

The hard-bound space hides the vulnerable self. — Jeanette Winterson

Can anyone deny that we are haunted? What is it that crouches under the myths we have made? Always the physical presence of something split off. — Jeanette Winterson

It takes much longer to leave the psychic place than the physical place. (p.120) — Jeanette Winterson

I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick. — Jeanette Winterson

The moment has been waiting the way the top step of the stairs waits for the sleepwalker. — Jeanette Winterson

I need the dark places to get outside of common sense — Jeanette Winterson

I go on writing so that I will always have something to read. — Jeanette Winterson

What you think is the heart might well be another organ. — Jeanette Winterson

There must be some part of Man that is more than his daily round. Some part of him that will use his profit on a matter of no profit. — Jeanette Winterson

I thought of my often-dream where Time poured the fishes into the sky and the sky was full of star fish; stella maris of the upper air. — Jeanette Winterson

You're never alone with a book, are you? It's a dialogue. — Jeanette Winterson

In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead. — Jeanette Winterson

With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy. — Jeanette Winterson

There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance. — Jeanette Winterson

Trust me, I'm telling you stories. — Jeanette Winterson

Like all familiar objects, it had become invisible. — Jeanette Winterson

Well done, my fine fellow out of my womb. What have you gained? Nothing! And oh, what have you lost? Everything! — Jeanette Winterson

It doesn't have to be like that but mostly it is. — Jeanette Winterson

Perhaps it is true that the world is made new again every day but our minds are not. The clamp that holds me will not let me go. — Jeanette Winterson

Passion is for holidays, not homecoming. — Jeanette Winterson

The important things happen by chance. Only the rest gets planned. — Jeanette Winterson

I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood. — Jeanette Winterson

You were loved then and you are loved now. Isn't that enough? — Jeanette Winterson

It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband. — Jeanette Winterson

Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom. — Jeanette Winterson

I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice. — Jeanette Winterson

She is a maze where I got lost years ago, and now find the way out. She is the missing map. She is the place that I am. — Jeanette Winterson

Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally. — Jeanette Winterson

The photographer frames the shot; writers frame their world — Jeanette Winterson

A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. — Jeanette Winterson

The words come at my call but who calls whom? — Jeanette Winterson

Fall for me, as an apple falls, as rain falls, because you must. Use gravity to anchor your desire. — Jeanette Winterson

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world. — Jeanette Winterson

The only selfish life is a timid one. — Jeanette Winterson

Nothing has an unlikely quality. It is heavy. — Jeanette Winterson

Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position. — Jeanette Winterson

Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late! — Jeanette Winterson

Reading is a rendezvous with your soul. — Jeanette Winterson

Love ... Just Nature's way of getting one person to pay the bills for another person. — Jeanette Winterson

A precise emotion seeks a precise expression. — Jeanette Winterson