Jeanette Winterson Quotes

I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires.

Music is a very, very powerful tool that filmmakers use to sway people into emotions that they intend you to feel.

I have done this—made the sad prince laugh. Made his grieving parents smile. None but me. Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands. Make them laugh with a gesture, cry with a word. Make them love you. And you will know what power is.

My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words that will break a strong man's will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.

But that's the problem with love - it acts on you, works through you, resists your attempts to control.

The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved.

As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse.

With many women I doubt whether there be any more effectual wayof touching their hearts than ill-using them and then confessing it. If you wish to get the sweetest fragrance from the herb at your feet, tread on it and bruise it.

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, more than quick words, do move a woman's mind.

If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry.

She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or fear unless she acknowledged hurt or fear, she had practiced denying them in herself. And since, when a joyful thing happened, they looked to see whether joy was on her, it was her habit to build laughter out of inadequate materials....She seemed to know that if she swayed the family shook, and if she ever deeply wavered or despaired the family would fall.

First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.

Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well as those who refuse to love us.

Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate.

The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.

Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have scored your name into my shoulders, referenced me with your mark. The pads of your fingers have become printing blocks, you tap a message on to my skin, tap meaning into my body. Your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before I met you, I relied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now you alter its pace with your own rhythm, you play upon me, drumming me taut.

There has always been a strong relationship between music and religion. It is because they both plug directly into the heart and can have real power for good or evil.

One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame

My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.

The love and support from the Witches of East End fans continues to blow us away and renews our faith that storytelling matters, strong female characters matter, and messages about faith and hope matter. I love this family. I love this story. And to be part of a show that has inspired and touched so many people's hearts is a true blessing.