Quotes Jeanette Winterson

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but ea...

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into ...

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement....

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loath...

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist st...

Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the...

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins ...

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptiv...

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

I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the ...

I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make...

I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone el...

I don't believe in happy endings....

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whateve...

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when i...

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change...

I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choo...

I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purp...

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks....

I like to look at how people work together when they are put...

I like to think the price I paid by being open about my priv...

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables t...

I never cared about money....

I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a m...

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psyc...