My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected. Jeanette Winterson More Quotes by Jeanette Winterson More Quotes From Jeanette Winterson In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this is home. I have to be a home to myself. I am the place I come back to and I can't keep hiding difficult things in trunks. Soon the house will be full of trunks and I perched on top of them with the phone saying, "Yes, I'm fine, of course, I'm fine, everything's fine." The trunks shudder. Jeanette Winterson phoneslighthome Trust your creativity. Jeanette Winterson creativity Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement. Jeanette Winterson excitementliteratureseems I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world. Jeanette Winterson importantwritingsex What the myths say, is that you have to be the hero of your own life. You're the one who has to take charge of who you are, you're the one who has to take control. And also, you're the one who can bring something to the community. Jeanette Winterson communityherohealing What you eat is the most political thing you do every day Jeanette Winterson political We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves now. Jeanette Winterson elizabethanengland 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 threetragedyrevenge Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Jeanette Winterson stories You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved. Jeanette Winterson hole-in-my-heartover-itgrief Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom. Jeanette Winterson disciplinecreativewriting Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is both journey and surprise. And as everyone knows, even the past is altered, depending on, not the facts, but the interpretation. Jeanette Winterson journeystoriespast Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor. Jeanette Winterson legendsrumorliterature The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct. Jeanette Winterson lastsspeaktime When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day. Jeanette Winterson hoursgoing-awaytime I never cared about money. Jeanette Winterson money Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent. Jeanette Winterson inspirationalkidschildren I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness. Jeanette Winterson groupschangewriting I don't believe in happy endings. Jeanette Winterson happy-endingsdont-believebelieve Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself. Jeanette Winterson hard-lifelife-is-hardgiving
