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

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Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of modern life (that nothing matters, nothing changes, money is everything, etc). Writing is a state of being as well as an act of doing.

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