Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I felt like a thief with a bagful of stolen glances.
Jeanette Winterson
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
Author
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
Manchester
England
Thief
Glances
Thieves
Stolen
Felt
Like
More quotes by Jeanette Winterson
Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.
Jeanette Winterson
..to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.
Jeanette Winterson
I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
Jeanette Winterson
To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
Jeanette Winterson
Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.
Jeanette Winterson
You have to engage with people who are different from you and try to work with their thinking and their mind. That's a real challenge.
Jeanette Winterson
I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
Jeanette Winterson
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
They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.
Jeanette Winterson
What you risk reveals what you value.
Jeanette Winterson
There’s no story that’s the start of itself.
Jeanette Winterson
Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
Jeanette Winterson
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
Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same.
Jeanette Winterson
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
I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.
Jeanette Winterson
Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.
Jeanette Winterson
Their throats were bare for God.
Jeanette Winterson
Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.
Jeanette Winterson
There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.
Jeanette Winterson
