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

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

- 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

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

- 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

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

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

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

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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