99+ Jeanette Winterson Quotes on Loss, Books and Self fulfilling prophecy - Quotes.pub

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Reading is a rendezvous with your soul.

Reading Quotes

Trust me, I’m telling you stories.

Stories Quotes

When we let ourselves respond to poetry, to music, to pictures, we are clearing a space where new stories can root, in effect we are clearing a space for new stories about ourselves.

Stories Quotes

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.

Stories Quotes

She is like a mathematical equation, always there and impossible to disprove.

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

I tried to build an igloo out of orange peel but it kept falling down and even when it stood up I didn’t have an eskimo to put in it, so I had to invent a story about ‘How Eskimo Got Eaten’, which made me even more miserable. It’s always the same with diversions; you get involved.

It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling – usually that’s a terror of our own unconscious processes.

I don’t understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it’s a mind-altering possibility.

For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel. Emotionalism is not the same as emotion. We cannot cut out emotion – in the economy of the human body, it is the limbic, not the neural, highway that takes precedence. We are not robots – apologies there, Spike – but we act as though all our problems would be solved if only we had no emotions to cloud our judgement.

I discover that grief means living with someone who is no longer there.

Why doesn’t every mother believer her child can change the world? The child can. This is the joke. Here we are still looking for a saviour and hundreds are being born every second. Look at it, this tiny capsule of new life, indifferent to your prejudices, your miseries, unmindful of the world already made. Make it again? They could if we let them, but we make sure they grow up just like us, fearful like us. Don’t let them know the potential that they are.

The missingness of the missing. We know what that feels like. Every endeavor, every kiss, every stab in the heart, every letter home, every leaving, is a ransack of what’s in front of us in the service of what’s lost.

I have come so far so fast that I haven’t had time to ask whether or not this is where I want to be.

History is a madman’s museum.

There was an ending – there always is – but the story went on past the ending – it always does.

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.

When I say ‘I will be true to you’ I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No one can legislate love; it cannot be given orders or cajoled into service. Love belongs to itself, deaf to pleading and unmoved by violence. Love is not something you can negotiate. Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.

En de tijd die zo gestaag en zo zeker voorbijgaat slaat voorbij de klokken op hol. Het kost zo weinig tijd om een leven te veranderen en het kost een heel leven om die verandering te begrijpen.

It takes so little time to change a lifetime and it takes a lifetime to understand the change.

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create. Just on the other side of creativity is the nuthouse – and I often notice people looking at me strangely when I am talking out loud, but there is no other way.

In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.

The point about food is that a lot of it used to be left-overs and recycling.

The riskiness of Art, the reason why it affects us, is not the riskiness of its subject matter, it is the risk of creating a new way of seeing, a new way of thinking.

I need the dark places to get outside of common sense.

Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.

Every believer is an anarchist at heart. True believers would rather see governments topple and history rewritten than scuff the cover of their faith.

Everyone remembers things which never happened. And it is common knowledge that people often forget things which did. Either we are all fantasists and liars or the past has nothing definite in it.

I can change the story. I am the story.

Today we are all speeding under the golden arms of the arches into our city, into our lives, into the world that is a stream of information, ceaselessly collected and projected.

I’m not club-able, you see. I don’t like literary parties and literary gatherings and literary identities. I’d hate to join anything, however loosely.

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn’t choosing; I didn’t think I had to.

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

Odd that a festival to celebrate the most austere of births should end up being all about conspicuous consumption.

I want to be an art-hero – I want to change the form of the novel.

There is so little life, and it is fraught with chance. We meet, we don’t meet, we take the wrong turning, and still bump into each other. We conscientiously choose the ‘right road’ and it leads nowhere.

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

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

I didn’t mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

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

Although I sometimes pose as a fight animal, I’m really a flight animal.

I’ve thought of killing myself many times. I don’t do it, not because I am a coward, but because it would be easier for me to be dead. What’s my life? I make money and I make memories. That’s not a life. I don’t kill myself because living is my own life sentence.

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had. Some people’s emanations are very strong, some people create themselves afresh outside of their own body.

I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first.

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what’s crushing you.

Reading Quotes

There are different kinds of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it.

If the universe is movement, it will not be in one direction only. We think of our lives as linear but it is the spin of the earth that allows us to observe time. Walk with me.