Jeanette Winterson

“What you risk reveals what you value.”

“Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a library, they are a library, no matter how big or small.”

“Time is a string of pearls. Most people only see the string.”

“In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.”

“To be ill-adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.”

“I want someone who is fierce and will love me like a lion.”

“Love is an intervention.”

“It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that you are alive.”

“Art is not a luxury, it is a necessity.”

“She was a woman with a man inside her. She was a man with a woman inside him.”

“To tell a story is to take a risk.”

“Tradition is a guide, not a jailer.”

“Love is not a feeling, it's a way of being. A way of being with yourself, a way of being with others.”

“I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.”

“I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.”

“A book is a magic carpet that flies you off to another world.”

“The journey is part of the destination.”

“Do you fall in love often? Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.”

“What is it about a beautiful sunny day, with the birds singing, that makes you want to lie down and die?”

“The future is an imaginary place. It will never be as you imagine it.”