Author: Jeanette Winterson

Quotes

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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