Jeanette Winterson

“What you risk reveals what you value.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Love is an intervention.”

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

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

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

“Tradition is a guide, not a jailer.”

“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.”

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

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

“The journey is part of the destination.”

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

“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.”