To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language. Jeanette Winterson More Quotes by Jeanette Winterson More Quotes From Jeanette Winterson The unknownness of my needs frightens me. I do now know how huge they are, or how high they are, I only know that they are not being met. If you want to find out the circumference of an oil drop, you can use lycopodium powder. That’s what I’ll find. A tub of lycopodium powder, and I will sprinkle it on to my needs and find out how large they are. Then when I meet someone I can write up the experiment and show them what they have to take on. Jeanette Winterson oilwritingneeds I can't catch her by copying her, I can't draw her with a borrowed stencil. She is all the things a lover should be and quite a few a lover should not. Pin her down? She's not a butterfly. I'm not a wrestler. She's not a target. I'm not a gun. Tell you what she is? She's not Lot no. 27 and I'm not one to brag. Jeanette Winterson copyingbutterflygun I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone. Jeanette Winterson reckoningmomentsgone And when I look at a history book and think of the imaginative effort it has taken to squeeze this oozing world between two boards and typeset, I am astonished. Perhaps the event has an unassailable truth. God saw it. God knows. But I am not God. And so when someone tells me what they heard or saw, I believe them, and I believe their friend who also saw, but not in the same way, and I can put these accounts together and I will not have a seamless wonder but a sandwich laced with mustard of my own. Jeanette Winterson takenbelievebook Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places. Jeanette Winterson experiencerealityyears Naked is the best disguise. Jeanette Winterson disguisenaked I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older. Jeanette Winterson hypepeoplethinking I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously. Jeanette Winterson stupidwould-bethinking I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy. Jeanette Winterson stressful-situationsworkpeople My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough. Jeanette Winterson friendsenoughpeople I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen. Jeanette Winterson literaturemindschool I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame. Jeanette Winterson i-hatehatepurpose I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed. Jeanette Winterson catgardenbook Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't. Jeanette Winterson confidenceusualreality You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking? Jeanette Winterson askingheartgiving There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that. Jeanette Winterson literatureselfwriting Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me. Jeanette Winterson cosmosliteraturewant Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world. Jeanette Winterson lovebookworld He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it. Jeanette Winterson psychosistryingreality You were in my arms for the first time, and you said my name, 'Tristan.' I answered you: 'Isolde.' Isolde. The world became a word. Jeanette Winterson armsnamesworld
