Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.

Quote by Jeanette Winterson

Topics: Jeanette Winterson Quotes

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing...

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing...

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

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...

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

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

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

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

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come...

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come...

With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage,...

With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage,...

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity,...

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity,...

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

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 don't believe in happy endings.

I don't believe in happy endings.

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.

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...

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when...

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when...

London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live....

London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live....

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody...

Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody...

What you risk reveals what you value.

What you risk reveals what you value.

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...

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do...

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do...