Jeanette Winterson

I love badly. That is too little or too much. I throw myself over an unsuitable cliff, only to reel back in horror from a simple view out the window. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#love

I always say to people who want to write: Live life! Don't stand on the rim, don't sit on the sidelines. Make mistakes, make a mess, get it wrong. Read everything, and get out and be in life. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#life

There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together. Forgiveness unblocks the future." (p.225) ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#forgiveness

Once you start recognizing your own obsessions, you know you’re getting old. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#obsession #age

What is it about intimacy that makes it so very disturbing? ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#life #love #life

Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#life #writers #life

A book is a magic carpet that flies you off somewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back? ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#imagination #reading #imagination

There are only three possible endings —aren't there? — to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That’s it. All stories end like that. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#stories #forgiveness

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

#home

The things that I regret in my life are not errors of judgement but failures of feeling. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#inspirational #life #success #inspirational