Jeanette Winterson Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of modern life (that nothing matters, nothing changes, money is everything, etc). Writing is a state of being as well as an act of doing.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Powerful, Writing, Soul

  "Creative writing professor Hanif Kureishi says such courses are 'a waste of time'" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2014.

• He: What’s the matter with you? Me: Nothing. Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly numbing my soul. Caught by nothing, saying nothing, nothingness becomes me. When I am nothing they will say surprised in the way that they are forever surprised, "but there was nothing the matter with her.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Forever, Soul, Matter

• When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Gun, Iron, Smell

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.136, Random House

• Reading is a rendezvous with your soul.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Reading, Soul, Rendezvous

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