Author: Jeanette Winterson

Cites

• NULL (1)
  • IN: Sexing the Cherry (1989) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What does this say about time? Matter, that thing the most solid and the well-known, which you are holding in your hands and which makes up your body, is now known to be mostly empty space. Empty space and points of light. What does this say about the reality of the world?
    FROM: NULL, (1989), Author, UK
• Mrs Beeton (2)
  • IN: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When thick rinds are used the top must be thoroughly skimmed, or a scum will form marring the final appearance.
    FROM: The Making of Marmalade, (None), NULL, UK
• Nell Gwynn (1)
  • IN: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Oranges are not the only fruit!
    FROM: NULL, (1985), Speech, UK
• Muriel Spark (1)
  • IN: Lighthousekeeping (2004) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Remember you must die.
    FROM: Momento Mori, (1959), Novel, UK
• Ali Smith (1)
  • IN: Lighthousekeeping (2004) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Remember you must live.
    FROM: Hotel World, (2001), Novel, UK
• Robert Lowell (1)
  • IN: The Gap of Time (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Past fifty, we learn with surprise and a sense of suicidal absolution that what we intended and failed could never have happened -- and must be done better.
    FROM: For Sheridan, (1977), Poem, US
• Medea (1)
  • IN: The Passion (1987) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: You have navigated with raging soul far from the paternal home, passing beyond the seas' double rocks and now you inhabit a foreign land.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Euripides (1)
  • IN: The Passion (1987) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: You have navigated with raging soul far from the paternal home, passing beyond the seas' double rocks and now you inhabit a foreign land.
    FROM: Medea, (-431), Play, Greece

Cited by

• Margo Rabb (1)
  • IN: Cures for Heartbreak (2007) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You don't get over it because "it" is the person you loved.
    FROM: Written on the Body, (1992), Novel, UK
• Lily Tuck (1)
  • IN: The Double Life of Liliane (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.
    FROM: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, (2011), Book, UK
• Elizabeth George (1)
  • IN: A Banquet of Consequences (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ...the past is so hard to shift. It comes with us like a chaperone, standing between us and the newness of the present -- the new chance.
    FROM: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, (2011), Book, UK