Jeanette Winterson Quotes:
Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.
Jeanette Winterson
The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
Jeanette Winterson
Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.
Jeanette Winterson
We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.
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
Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn’t matter to me.
Jeanette Winterson
When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don’t do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.
Jeanette Winterson
To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.
Jeanette Winterson
What’s invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.
Jeanette Winterson
What you risk reveals what you value.
Jeanette Winterson
If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.
Jeanette Winterson
To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
Jeanette Winterson
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn’t felt that.
Jeanette Winterson
The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.
Jeanette Winterson
Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.
Jeanette Winterson
Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you’ll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.
Jeanette Winterson
Ordinary professionalism and 20 years’ experience can accomplish a lot, but it can’t access the hidden places.
Jeanette Winterson
In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.
Jeanette Winterson
If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what’s crushing you.
Jeanette Winterson
I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.
Jeanette Winterson