Jeanette Winterson

And you? Now that I have discovered you? Beautiful, dangerous, unleashed. Still I try to hold you, knowing that your body is faced with knives. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#relationships #beauty

...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#inspirational #writing #attitude

Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#happiness #sadness #family

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#academics #body #book #consumes #each

In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#love

Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#imagination #poetry #imagination

For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#fate #jeanette-winterson #sexing-the-cherry #change

I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#flight #art

By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#life #life

The human heart is my territory. I write about love because it’s the most important thing in the world. I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#love #sex #writting #life