I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness. Jeanette Winterson More Quotes by Jeanette Winterson More Quotes From Jeanette Winterson This is a quantum universe ... neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene. Jeanette Winterson every-second quantum determined Mankind, I hazard, wherever found, Civilized or Savage, cannot keep to any purpose for much length of time, except the purpose of destroying himself. Jeanette Winterson hazards savages purpose Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Jeanette Winterson adults I have met a great many people on their way towards God and I wonder why they have chosen to look for him rather than themselves. Jeanette Winterson god people way I don't hate men, I just wish they'd try harder. Theyall want to be heroes and all we want is for them to stay at home and help with the housework and the kids. That's not the kind of heroism they enjoy. Jeanette Winterson hate hero kids When I was born, my father wanted to drown me, but my mother persuaded him to let me live in disguise, to see if I could bring any wealth to the household. Jeanette Winterson wealth mother father In therapy , the therapist acts as a container for what we daren't let out, because it is so scary, or what lets itself out every so often, and lays waste to our lives. Jeanette Winterson therapists waste scary Poetry is easier to learn than prose. Once you have learned it you can use it as a light and a laser. It shows up your true situation and it helps you cut through it. Jeanette Winterson cutting poetry light reading is not a passive act. It's a creative act. It's a relationship between the writer and a person the writer will probably never meet. I think it's very wrong to write in a way that leaves no room for the reader to maneuver. I don't want to get in the way. What I'd really like to do is to perform the Indian Rope Trick - go higher and higher and eventually disappear. Jeanette Winterson reading writing thinking You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return. Jeanette Winterson reckoning return revenge Shuttered like a fan no-one suspects your shoulder blades of wings. Jeanette Winterson blades fans wings When I left home at sixteen I bought a small rug. It was my roll-up world. Whatever room, whatever temporary place I had, I unrolled the rug. It was a map of myself. Invisible to others, but held in the rug, were all the places I had stayed - for a few weeks, for a few months. On the first night anywhere new I liked to lie in bed and look at the rug to remind myself that I had what I needed even though what I had was so little. Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won’t help you. Jeanette Winterson home night lying Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness. Jeanette Winterson mad creativity trying When we let ourselves respond to poetry, to music, to pictures, we are clearing a space where new stories can root, in effect we are clearing a space for new stories about ourselves. Jeanette Winterson space roots stories What a strange world this is when you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. Jeanette Winterson love-is sex world A homosexual is further away from a woman than a rhinoceros. Jeanette Winterson rhinoceros homosexual It is the nature of walls that they should fall. Jeanette Winterson wall should fall Why is the mind incapable of deciding its own subject matter? Why when we desperately want to think of one thing to we invariably think of another? Jeanette Winterson mind want thinking Reading is a rendezvous with your soul. Jeanette Winterson rendezvous reading soul Even the most solid of things, and the most real, the best-loved and the well-known, are only hand shadows on the wall. Empty space and points of light. Jeanette Winterson wall light real
