My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.
Jeanette Winterson

My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.
Jeanette Winterson

Naked is the best disguise.
Jeanette Winterson

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.
Jeanette Winterson

One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life.
Jeanette Winterson

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.
Jeanette Winterson

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.
Jeanette Winterson

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
Jeanette Winterson

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

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
Jeanette Winterson

They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?
Jeanette Winterson

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.
Jeanette Winterson

To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
Jeanette Winterson

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.
Jeanette Winterson

What you risk reveals what you value.
Jeanette Winterson

What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.
Jeanette Winterson

Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.
Jeanette Winterson

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

Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.
Jeanette Winterson

With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.
Jeanette Winterson