Jeanette Winterson Quotes

We shape our homes and then our homes shape us.

It's so important for people to have a space that they love, and that you wake up happy every morning in your house. A big part of that is what you have for your furniture, your art, your decor.

I think to make your home as comfortable as possible is so important. There’s something really interesting about that as a trend, that whole idea of lifestyle and being happy in your surroundings.

I don't really go to YouTube or, especially, participate in Facebook. I just really don't want to know that many people!

I am creative in my living space - the designer in me helps that out.

... relationships required such vigilance, such attention. You had to hold them together by force of will, and other people took up so much space, demanded so much time. It was exhausting.

Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.

It doesn’t matter how much you love someone, you are never going to be what that person wants you to be.

It's important to have your own space. I've never trusted people who do everything together. I call them "Kool-Aid Couples," because it's like they drank the same Kool-Aid and it's drugged them into constantly gazing into each other's eyes.

I like to say that before we can create an external space in which to receive people, we have to create an internal space in which to receive them.

Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.

She never thought she was good at making friends. But maybe she was just trying to be friends with the wrong people.

When you design someone's house, it's actually painful. I never say, "This house will be a total reflection of you and any defects in it will make you look defective." But people do expect their homes to be reflections of themselves. So what I say is, "Just pretend this is your eighth home. By then you won't care."

People have to find their rhythm. Some people have need for more contact and time together and some people need more space.

I still live my life the way that I want to live it, and people are very respectful of my space, but they also want to chat, and I quite like chatting.

My entire concept of lifestyle is built on the foundation of my homes. There is no more important expression of this concept than that of my own personal living space.

I'm not to the point where I need to shut myself off from people, unless I feel like I need to, but I don't force myself to deal with people.

I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough.

I don't really check out other people's butts.

Some people do have softer boundaries.

I like to see a home like this, a home connected with people's thoughts and work, things they love.

I'm curious about everything, except what people have to say about me.

The house shows the owner.

Choose a checked or striped wall paper. People will be halfway home before they are able to focus.

If I really want inner peace in my life, then I must not busy myself with what other people do and say.