Jeanette Winterson Quotes
Most popular Jeanette Winterson Quotes
![What you risk reveals what you value. - Jeanette Winterson quote.](/img/q/91/39091A-what-you-risk-reveals-what-you-value-jeanette-winterson.png)
What you risk reveals what you value.
![Language is what stops the heart exploding. - Jeanette Winterson quote.](/img/q/37/34337A-language-is-what-stops-the-heart-exploding-jeanette-winterson.png)
Language is what stops the heart exploding.
![Language is a finding place, not a hiding place. - Jeanette Winterson quote.](/img/q/38/34338A-language-is-a-finding-place-not-hiding-place-jeanette-winterson.png)
Language is a finding place, not a hiding place.
![The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home. - Jeanette Winterson quote.](/img/q/99/28999A-the-curious-are-always-in-some-danger-if-you-are-jeanette-winterson.png)
The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
![Unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven. - Jeanette Winterson quote.](/img/q/01/30901A-unhappy-families-are-conspiracies-of-silence-one-who-breaks-silence-jeanette-winterson.png)
Unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.
![The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something. - Jeanette Winterson quote.](/img/q/86/42386A-the-impulse-to-worship-is-impossible-eradicate-even-most-prosaic-jeanette-winterson.png)
The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something.
![Art, all art, not just painting, is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. - Jeanette Winterson quote.](/img/q/91/26491A-art-all-art-not-just-painting-is-foreign-city-we-jeanette-winterson.png)
Art, all art, not just painting, is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar.
![I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me. - Jeanette Winterson quote.](/img/q/62/38862A-im-always-nervous-about-going-home-just-as-i-am-jeanette-winterson.png)
I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.
![Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear? 'I love you' is always a quotation. - Jeanette Winterson quote.](/img/q/75/17375A-why-is-it-that-the-most-unoriginal-thing-we-can-jeanette-winterson.png)
Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear? 'I love you' is always a quotation.
![I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it. - Jeanette Winterson quote.](/img/q/92/39092A-i-have-noticed-that-doing-the-sensible-thing-is-only-jeanette-winterson.png)
I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.
![There are different kinds of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it. By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's. - Jeanette Winterson quote.](/img/q/94/27094A-there-are-different-kinds-of-infidelity-but-betrayal-is-betrayal-jeanette-winterson.png)
There are different kinds of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it. By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.
![Memoir is like a patchwork quilt—a log cabin pioneer way of piecing together experience. It satisfies our need for gossip and intimacy, for testimony and confessional, and in this world of spin, offers a truthful account of what it means to succeed or fail, to love and lose, to break your heart and mend it again. - Jeanette Winterson quote.](/img/q/95/35695A-memoir-is-like-a-patchwork-quilt-log-cabin-pioneer-way-jeanette-winterson.png)
Memoir is like a patchwork quilt—a log cabin pioneer way of piecing together experience. It satisfies our need for gossip and intimacy, for testimony and confessional, and in this world of spin, offers a truthful account of what it means to succeed or fail, to love and lose, to break your heart and mend it again.