What is it that you contain? The Dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia. The expanding universe opening in your gut. Are your twenty-three feet of intestines loaded with stars? Jeanette Winterson More Quotes by Jeanette Winterson More Quotes From Jeanette Winterson I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message in a bottle, a shout in the dark. It's saying, 'I'm here and I believe that you are somewhere and that you will answer if necessary across time, not necessarily in my lifetime.' Jeanette Winterson dark believe art Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells. Jeanette Winterson spells enchantment art I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick. Jeanette Winterson bricks glasses thinking Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's a way of explaining the universe while leaving the universe unexplained, it's a way of keeping it all alive, not boxing it into time. Jeanette Winterson leaving boxing stories There must be some part of Man that is more than his daily round. Some part of him that will use his profit on a matter of no profit. Jeanette Winterson use matter men Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art. Jeanette Winterson haste enemy art The Bible writers didn't care that they were bunching together sequences some of which were historical, some preposterous, and some downright manipulative. Faithful recording was not their business; faith was. Jeanette Winterson historical faith bible the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work. Jeanette Winterson bounds goes-on book Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too difficult. I especially liked 'the quick and the dead' - you really get a feel for the difference if you live in a house with mice and a mousetrap. Jeanette Winterson home class death Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The troops broke through the window and snatched the body and the body is gone. ... Death reduces us to the baffled logic of a small child. If yesterday why not today? Jeanette Winterson yesterday death children I've never been tempted by God but I like his trappings. Jeanette Winterson tempted god Very often history is a means of denying the past. Jeanette Winterson mean history past Memoir ... satisfies our need for gossip and intimacy, for testimony and confessional, and in this world of spin, offers a truthful account of what it means to succeed or fail, to love and lose, to break your heart and mend it again. Jeanette Winterson gossip heart mean Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing the universe to go on being unexplained; and we seem to need this even now, in our twentieth-century grandeur. Jeanette Winterson hook mind needs Yes, the past is another country, but one that we can visit, and once there we can bring back the things we need. Jeanette Winterson country past needs Sometimes we forget that if we do not encourage new work now, we will lose all touch with the work of the past we claim to love. If art is not living in a continuous present, it is living in a museum, only those working now can complete the circuit between the past, present and future energies we call art. Jeanette Winterson museums past art I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you. Jeanette Winterson causes trouble literature I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped. Jeanette Winterson private-life literature thinking Today we are all speeding under the golden arms of the arches into our city, into our lives, into the world that is a stream of information, ceaselessly collected and projected. Jeanette Winterson arms information cities Although I sometimes pose as a fight animal, I'm really a flight animal. Jeanette Winterson flight fighting animal
