Jeanette Winterson Quotes

I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink.

As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool.

I don't think there's really any difference between art - or writing, or music - and magic. And I particularly draw the link between magic and writing. I think that they are profoundly connected.

The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.

Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates.

I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty.

My parents are creative on many fronts, and they pushed me to be that way, too. They wanted me to write, actually.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

Then, as now, the Disney studio buzzed with activity. You had a strong impression of being at the center of something very exciting.

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

Notebooks allow for all kinds of record-keeping, and I kept one myself as a kid. I was attracted to mixing up words and pictures freely, since that's how I think.

To be a Jew is an act of the strenuous mind as it stands before the fakeries and lying seductions of the world, saying no and no again as they parade by in all their allure. And to be a writer is to plunge into the parade and become one of the delirious marchers.

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.

It's all about doing work, being creative and staying true to who you are and having fun. That's what us actors are all about.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

The more life you have, the more it's in your pores, the more able you are to be creative as an artist.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say.