Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.

Jeanette Winterson's Popular Quotes

It doesn't have to be like that but mostly it is.

- Jeanette Winterson

Everything is imprinted for ever with what it once was.

- Jeanette Winterson

She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don'…

- Jeanette Winterson

Life was a pre-death experience.

- Jeanette Winterson

Do it from the heart or not at all.

- Jeanette Winterson

There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents,…

- Jeanette Winterson

There’s no story that’s the start of itself.

- Jeanette Winterson

Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all the world. As a happy ending? As an ending.

- Jeanette Winterson

In this life, you have to be your own hero.

- Jeanette Winterson