Jeanette Winterson Quotes About Meetings

Quotes about: Meetings

• I cannot assume you will understand me. It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear. Some story we must have. Stray words on crumpled paper. A weak signal into the outer space of each other. The probability of seperate worlds meeting is very small. The lure is immense. We send starships. We fall in love

  Jeanette Winterson

  Falling In Love, Space, Stories

• The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Falling In Love, World, Probability

• A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Bridges, Metaphor, Possibility

• One of the many, many things I hate about war is how it trivializes the personal. The big themes, the broad sweep, the emergency measures, the national identity, all the things that a particular kind of man with a particular kind of power urge adores, these are the things that become important. War gives the lie to the personal, drowns it in meetings, alarms, sacrifices. The personal is only allowed to return as death.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Hate, War

• We didn't build our bridges simply to avoid walking on water. Nothing so obvious. A bridge is a meeting place. A neutral place. A casual place. Enemies will choose to meet on a bridge and end their quarrel in that void... For lovers, a bridge is a possibility, a metaphor of their chances. And for the traffic in whispered goods, where else but a bridge in the night?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Night, Bridges, Water

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• Great control and great discipline are necessary when you reach your own editing stage of the book, but in the early stages you have to be prepared to let anything happen and to get it wrong or go off track. The development of a character is not smooth or simple - it is as tricky as meeting someone new whom you would like to know better.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, Character, Simple

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