Famous Quotes

"Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places."

Jeanette Winterson on Experience

More quotes about Experience

• "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards."

  Soren Kierkegaard on Experience

• "The only source of knowledge is experience."

  Albert Einstein on Experience

• "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

  C. S. Lewis on Experience

• "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

  Oscar Wilde on Experience

• "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

  Mark Twain on Experience

More quotes by Jeanette Winterson

• "I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed."

• "Art saved me it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence."

• "If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you."

• "I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness."

• "I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written."