Quotes by Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

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Why is the measure of love loss? — Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. Wha — Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door. — Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
If the sun is shining, stand in it- yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass- they have to- because ti — Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whol — Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enoug — Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when — Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
I wasn’t reading poetry because my aim was to work my way through English Literature in Prose A–Z.But this was different — Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
There are two kinds of writing the one you write and the one that writes you. The one that writes you is dangerous. You — Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they he — Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you ope — Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. — Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
I wasn’t reading poetry because my aim was to work my way through English Literature in Prose A–Z.But this was diff — Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that — Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
The wider we read the freer we become. — Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn't be re — Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
I did not realise that when money becomes the core value, then education drives towards utility or that the life or the — Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Adoption is outside. You act out what it feels like to be the one who doesn't belong. And you act it out by trying to do — Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
She knew full well that writers were sex-crazed bohemians who broke the rules and didn't go out to work. — Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the love that sets. — Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?