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Jeanette Winterson Quotes

Jeanette Winterson quotes

British Novelist August 27, 1959

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I will come for you. Roll my strength into a ball for you. Throw myself across chance for you. I will be the bridge or the pulley because you are the dream. Jeanette Winterson
Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping. Jeanette Winterson
There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together. Forgiveness unblocks the future." (p.225) Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is..."
When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun. Jeanette Winterson
Cheating is easy. There's no swank to infidelity. To borrow against the trust someone has placed in you costs nothing at first. You get away with it, you take a little more and a little more until there is no more to draw on. Oddly, your hands should be full with all that taking but when you open them there's nothing there. Jeanette Winterson
Somewhere beween the swamp and the mountains. Somewhere beween fear and sex. Somewere beween God and the Devil passion is and the way there is sudden and the way back worse. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self."
Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self. Jeanette Winterson
Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Time is a great deadener; people forget, get bored, grow old,..."
Time is a great deadener; people forget, get bored, grow old, go away. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed."
For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change..."
I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness. Jeanette Winterson
Wide reading is important. You don’t have to like it, but it’s important to grapple with things you don’t understand. I’ve been spending the last six months getting up an hour early to try to understand economics because I need to. I don’t want to be one of these bewildered schmucks. The things that you understand will inform your writing. The bigger your mind, the better your work is going to be. You’re not born with a big mind; you have to build it. If I don’t read for an hour a day, I get... Jeanette Winterson
I sat at the back, listening to the music or mumbling through the sevice. I'm never tempted by God, but I like his trappings. Jeanette Winterson
I sat at the back, listening to the music or mumbling through the service. I'm never tempted by God, but I like his trappings. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck..."
I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone. Jeanette Winterson

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