Truth Quote by Jeanette Winterson — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“And what is enlightenment anyway but delusions we can live with?”

“A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is.”

“Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness that is clean again. A second that is you, without memory or experience, the animal warm and waking into a brand new world. There is the sun dissolving the dark, and light as clear as music, filling the room where you sleep and the other rooms behind your eyes.”

“I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words.”

“Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.”

“What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.”

“I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.”

“If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance (...); as great as a man, some think even greater. But this is woman in fiction. In fact, as”

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

“Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.”

“The happening and telling are very different things. This doesn’t mean that the story isn’t true,”