Jeanette Winterson Quotes

I think everybody has a secret life.

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.

Everybody has a public life, and they have their own private life. Everybody has their secrets. Everybody has their own private, you know, agonies as well as joys. And that's what great drama, whether it's the movies or the theater, that's what it shows.

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

The image you see of me out in public is really different from who I am in real life.

My life is nothing like my videos. I'm definitely not walking around with lots of hot women, as I am in my videos.

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

I have quite a rich inner life, and I'm constantly looking for a way to express that. I haven't found it yet in acting. When you're playing a character, you're only going to find outlets for very specific parts of your inner world.

People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life.

I don't really go to clubs anymore. I'm actually quite settled. Living in Highgate with my dog and my husband and my daughter! I'm not a hell-raiser. But don't burst the bubble. Behind closed doors, for sure, I'm a hell-raiser.

Anybody's life is probably a mess of secrets and lies when you boil it right down.

As a child who loved to read, I had trouble finding honest stories. I felt that adults were always keeping secrets from me, even in the books I was reading.

I'm a real-life 'Hannah Montana.'

No one really has any idea about me. To me, what I give you is what happens onscreen, and past that, anything you're coming up with in your own head, you're creating in your own mind.

Everyone has secrets. Especially me.

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes, because we have to.

After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.

...there are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far.

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

I'll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.

One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.

Sylvia loved secrets and even if she didn't have any secrets she made sure that you thought she did. Amelia had no secrets, Amelia knew nothing. When she grew up she planned to know everything and to keep it all a secret.

People are secretive when they have secrets.

There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.