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Jeanette Winterson

13 quotes

Sometimes a single quote is enough to make a name memorable. Jeanette Winterson has given us several. The range of their thinking — from Change to Experience — speaks to an intellectual restlessness that shows in every quote. Our collection holds 15 quotes from Jeanette Winterson, each offering a different angle on Change, Experience, Women, Truth, and Time. Consider this gem from Jeanette Winterson: "Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement."

“I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Change

All Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

“If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Change

“Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Experience

“However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Experience

“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?”

— Jeanette Winterson

Time

“Art saved me it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Art

“I believe in communication books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Communication

“I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Alone

“Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Freedom

“Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Truth

“I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Change

“The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Home

“I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Change

“I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Women