Author: Jeanette Winterson

Quotes

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

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

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 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

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

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

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 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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