"The riskiness of Art, the reason why it affects us, is not the riskiness of its subject matter, it is the risk of creating a new way of seeing, a new ...












Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.
More Jeanette Winterson quotes
"I thought no one was talking to me and the others thought I wasn't talking to them.
"I never wanted to find my birth parents - if one set of parents felt like a misfortune, two sets would be self-destructive...I had no idea that you co...
"Things are continually beginning again; they’re never really resolved, you know. They are only resolved temporarily. We live in a society that peddles...
"But if what can exist does exist, is memory invention or is invention memory?
"And myself? Observe me. There is something to be gained from my surface uses, and perhaps a little more from my lower depths, but my very bottom? That...
"Time: Change experienced and observed. Time measured by the angle of the turning earth as it rotates through its axis. The earth turning slowly on its...
"The winged word. The mercurial word. The word that is both moth and lamp. The word that is itself and more. the associative word light with meanings. ...
"I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking.
"Saddest of all are the woman who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue.
"Progress is not one of those floating comparatives, so beloved of our friends in advertising, we need a context, a perspective. What are we better tha...
"Look up. This is the season of shooting stars. Light, two thousand years old, still dazzling. Let me see your face. Your face lit up by twenty centuri...
"What are the unreal things but the passion that once burned one like a fire? What are the incredible things but the things that one has faithfully bel...
"...to create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement. Once created, the creature was separate from the creator, and needed no seconding to fully ...
"Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.