Jeanette Winterson Quotes

You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.

Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.

There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.

For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.

People love stories. They need stories.

We think we understand each other, but we never really do.

Why do two people fall in love? It's a mystery.

Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love

But why should you be interested in me?" Good question. I can’t explain it myself right this moment. But maybe – just maybe – if we start getting together and talking, after a while something like Francis Lai’s soundtrack music will start playing in the background, and a whole slew of concrete reasons why I’m interested in you will line up out of nowhere. With luck, it might even snow for us.

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

Translation is the art of failure.

My job, and that's my job, is to dress the naked truth. To make it interesting, to make it viable, to make it seem like something you understand and feel and love.

I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly.

Timing is everything with relationships.

Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.

Nothing is inevitable with relationships.

It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better.

Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year. That's why you need a strong line of communication... which includes laughter.

I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.

When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.

It can bum you out when your intentions aren't, like, translated properly.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don't understand each other. Not at all! But that's what makes relationships so amazing.

Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.