Author: Jeanette Winterson

Quotes

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

- Jeanette Winterson

I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

- Jeanette Winterson

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

- 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.

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

The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.

The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.

- 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.

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

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

- Jeanette Winterson

Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.

Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.

- Jeanette Winterson

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

- Jeanette Winterson

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