Top 65 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

I never cared about money.

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.

Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.

I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

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