Life gives you enough hard knocks so it’s unlikely you’ll stay that sure of yourself. — Jeanette Winterson
If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what’s crushing you. — Jeanette Winterson
I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion. — Jeanette Winterson
I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older. — Jeanette Winterson
I think heteros*xuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle. — Jeanette Winterson
I never wanted children. If I’d been deeply in love with a man and he’d wanted children — Jeanette Winterson
I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy. — Jeanette Winterson
I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn’t choosing; I didn’t think I had to. — Jeanette Winterson
I don’t understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it’s a mind-altering possibility. — Jeanette Winterson
I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people. — Jeanette Winterson
I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium. — Jeanette Winterson
Confidence and superiority: it’s the usual fundamentalist stuff: I’ve got the truth, and you haven’t. — Jeanette Winterson
Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence. — Jeanette Winterson
Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens. — Jeanette Winterson
The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home. — Jeanette Winterson
Would wonder woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed? — Jeanette Winterson