Jeanette Winterson Quotes & Sayings
65 most famous Jeanette Winterson quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for her. She's a 65 year old British novelist born on Aug 27, 1959.
“The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.”
“I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.”
“Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.”
“Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.”
“I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.”
“I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.”
“Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.”
“You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?”
“Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.”
“Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.”
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