Jeanette Winterson quotes - page 10

Jeanette Winterson is a British writer, acclaimed for her innovative novels and explorations of gender and identity. Her debut novel "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit" brought her international recognition and numerous awards. She continues to inspire readers with her thought-provoking works and unique storytelling style. Here are 280 of her quotes:

In the fossil record of our existence, there is no trace of love. You cannot find it held in the earth's crust, waiting to be discovered. The long bones of our ancestors show nothing of their hearts. Their last meal is sometimes preserved in peat or in ice, but their thoughts and feelings are gone.

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He's the kind of man who was born to rise and rise: a human elevator.

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There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name.

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What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.

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Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for a moment, it is enough.

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Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

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I don't believe in happy endings.

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Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

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I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

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

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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

Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There's no such thing in all the world. As a happy ending? As an ending.

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I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

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

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Poor me. There's nothing so sweet as wallowing in it is there Wallowing is sex for depressives.

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A sense of social hierarchy prevented Mrs Munde from actually telling the lousy bastard to get out, so instead she began to think evil thoughts. She had once read an article on mind control, explaining that the best way to bend someone to your will was to think of a gooey mudlike substance called Cliff Richard and direct it at the object of your intent. Such were the marshmellow-suffocating properties of this image that the victim fell instantly into an undignified froth. Putty in your hands in fact. It didn't seem to work. The stranger was insensitive as well as intrusive. Mrs Munde gave it one last go till the kitchen air was thick with Cliff Richard. The stranger suddenly made a little squeaking noise and fell sideways. 'Stop it, stop it!' he cried. 'You're pulping my brain.

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all the inevitable dying that comes with change. theres no choice that doesnt mean a loss.

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there are different types of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it.

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the imprint of another life, and although you can never have that life, your fingers trace the space where it might have been, and your fingers learn a kind of braille.

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i told myself as hero like any shipwreck story. it was a shipwreck, and me thrown on the coastline of humankind, and finding it not so hamna, and rarely kind.

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

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

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