I don't believe in happy endings.

Quote by Jeanette Winterson

Topics: Jeanette Winterson Quotes

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the...

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the...

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love,...

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love,...

Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear...

Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear...

What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.

What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I...

I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I...

It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.

It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.

My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And...

My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And...

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

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

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

Very few people ever manage what nature manages without effort and mostly without fail. We...

Very few people ever manage what nature manages without effort and mostly without fail. We...

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an...

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an...

I never cared about money.

I never cared about money.

I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd...

I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd...

In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.

In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.

I'm not a quitter.

I'm not a quitter.

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who...

I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who...

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the...

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the...