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Jeanette Winterson Quotes

Jeanette Winterson quotes

British Novelist August 27, 1959

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Jeanette Winterson quote: "[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they..."
[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness."
Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness. Jeanette Winterson
Book collecting is an obsession, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Jeanette Winterson
When I see a word held hostage to manhood I have to rescue it. Sweet trembling word, locked in a tower, tired of your Prince coming and coming. Jeanette Winterson
As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us. Jeanette Winterson
What I wanted to do was to fasten my index finger and thumb at the bolts of your collar bone, push out, spread the web of my hand until it caught against your throat. You asked me if I wanted to strangle you. No, I wanted to fit you, not just in the obvious ways but in so many indentations. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "I never cared about money."
I never cared about money. Jeanette Winterson
The journey is about coming home....There is always the return. And the wound will take you there. It is a blood-trail." (p. 220,222) Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead."
To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead. Jeanette Winterson
If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, `more than likely, that thing will happen.' She tapped her head. `It's all in the mind. Jeanette Winterson
I walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into the dark pit where there is no meaning. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can..."
This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to? Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "I go on writing so that I will always have something to read."
I go on writing so that I will always have something to read. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on..."
I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a..."
Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens. Jeanette Winterson

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