Author: Jeanette Winterson

Quotes

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

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

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

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

- 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

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

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

- Jeanette Winterson

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

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

- Jeanette Winterson

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.

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

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

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