Ordinary professionalism and 20 years’ experience can accomplish a lot, but it can’t access the hidden places. – Jeanette Winterson
I don’t understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it’s a mind-altering possibility. – Jeanette Winterson
With animal behavior, they’re all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy. – Jeanette Winterson
My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight’s not on them. But they do get somewhere. – Jeanette Winterson
I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed. – Jeanette Winterson
Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence. – Jeanette Winterson
When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don’t do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day. – Jeanette Winterson
I never wanted children. If I’d been deeply in love with a man and he’d wanted children, it would have been difficult. – Jeanette Winterson
The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down. – 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
Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you’ll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life. – Jeanette Winterson
One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life. – Jeanette Winterson
Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully. – Jeanette Winterson
Life gives you enough hard knocks so it’s unlikely you’ll stay that sure of yourself. – Jeanette Winterson