Top 65 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.

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?

I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.

I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.

I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.