Quotes by : Jeanette Winterson

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

...to create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement. Once created, the creature was separate from....

The library was quiet. It was busy but it was quiet and I thought it must be like this in a monastery....

It could be that this record set before you now is a fiction.

Anyone could see the ticker tape. It was more frightening than the that never stopped calculating the....

You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the....

Hold in, hold in, one crack and the wall is breached. I need now to be finite, self-contained, to stop....

I came to this city to escape.

We were the lucky ones, the notthese, we were the ones who had survived the aerial bombing and fire-clusters,....

St. Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than to....