If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much in use for it.
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Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
It was actually books that started to make those pockets of freedom, which I hadn't otherwise experienced. I do see them as talismans, as sacred objects. I see them as something that will protect me, I suppose, that will save me from things that I feel are threatening.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
It's the duty of the writer, and indeed of all artists, to think long and deeply and to be able to drill down into those substrata so that these contents are released.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Habit)
It is only habit and routine that makes the void look like purpose.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
What you risk reveals what you value.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic.
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Language is what stops the heart exploding.
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Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse, there is more than one reading. The story won't stop, can't stop, it goes on telling itself, waiting for an intervention that changes what will happen next.
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