The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home. – 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
I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn’t choosing; I didn’t think I had to. – Jeanette Winterson
Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn’t matter to me. – Jeanette Winterson
London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other. – Jeanette Winterson
I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older. – Jeanette Winterson
I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle. – Jeanette Winterson
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
I don’t read reviews because by then it’s too late – whatever anyone says, the book won’t change. It is written. – Jeanette Winterson
If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what’s crushing you. – Jeanette Winterson
I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people. – Jeanette Winterson
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn’t felt that. – 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
They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it? – Jeanette Winterson
My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough. – Jeanette Winterson
To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language. – Jeanette Winterson
Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know. – 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
Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It’s all legend, it is all rumor. – Jeanette Winterson