Jeanette Winterson Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Life

• I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hurt, Rejection

• Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Topics in Truth

• Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge. We’re not here to be comfortable—we’re here, really, to shake things up. That’s our job.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Topics in Job

• I felt like a thief with a bagful of stolen glances.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Romance

• [Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they’re doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Books, Reading

• Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Language

• I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Topics in Life, Religion

• Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Topics in Death, Friendship

  Tags in Time

• 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

• You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play.

  Jeanette Winterson

• You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

  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

• Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.

  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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Value, Reveals

• We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

  Jeanette Winterson

• To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.

  Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson (93)

Birth:	27th August, 1959
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist

About

Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England. She is an English novelist. She is also a broadcaster and a professor of creative writing. She is a two-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award, which focuses on LGBT issues. She has written several novels include: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Costa First Novel Award), The Passion (John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), Sexing the Cherry, Written on the Body (Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction), Art and Lies, Gut Symmetries, Lighthousekeeping, and The Stone Gods.

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