Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it's not arrogant.
Jeanette WintersonIf I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going.
Jeanette WintersonI know I've had an unusual beginning and a colourful life, but that wouldn't matter if I couldn't make it speak to other people.
Jeanette WintersonWords like passion and ecstasy, we learn them but they stay flat on the page. Sometimes we try to turn them over, find out what's on the other side, and everyone has a story to tell os a woman or a brothel or an opium night or a war. We fear it. We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much.
Jeanette Winterson