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Jeanette Winterson Quotes

Jeanette Winterson quotes

British Novelist August 27, 1959

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Jeanette Winterson quote: "I think we still believe that ambition is for boys."
I think we still believe that ambition is for boys. Jeanette Winterson
Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open -- the only way to stop the story running away under its own momentum, often towards an ending no one wants. Jeanette Winterson
What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. Jeanette Winterson
I lay there, stretched out, looking at the one star visible through the tiny window of the room. Only connect. How can you do that when the connections are broken? Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go..."
Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband."
It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "What art does is coax us away from the mechanical and towards..."
What art does is coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous Jeanette Winterson
Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise. Jeanette Winterson
Atlas said, 'Must my future be so heavy?' Hera said, 'That is your present, Atlas. Your future hardens every day, but it is not fixed.' 'How can I escape my fate?' 'You must choose your destiny. Jeanette Winterson
Two hundred miles from the surface of the earth there is no gravity. The laws of motion are suspended. You could turn somersaults slowly slowly, weight into weightlessness, nowhere to fall. As you lay on your back paddling in space you might notice your feet had fled your head. You are stretching slowly slowly, getting longer, your joints are slipping away from their usual places. There is no connection between your shoulder and your arm. You will break up bone by bone, fractured from who you... Jeanette Winterson
Names are still magic; even Sharon, Karen, Darren, and Warren are magic to somebody somewhere. In fairy stories, naming is knowledge. When I know your name, I can call your name, and when I call your name, you'll come to me. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood..."
If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away. Jeanette Winterson
They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the..."
Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination. Jeanette Winterson
Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. Jeanette Winterson

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