Jeanette Winterson Quotes

• Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge. We’re not here to be comfortable—we’re here, really, to shake things up. That’s our job.

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  I don’t know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.

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• Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.

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• I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.

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  What you risk reveals what you value.

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• The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.

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• Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

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• Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge. We’re not here to be comfortable—we’re here, really, to shake things up. That’s our job.

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• I felt like a thief with a bagful of stolen glances.

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• They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?

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• Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.

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• Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.

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

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• Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.

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• You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play.

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• You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

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• With animal behavior, they’re all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.

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• Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn’t matter to me.

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• When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don’t do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

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• Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.

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Jeanette Winterson (93)

Birth:	27th August, 1959
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist

About

Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England. She is an English novelist. She is also a broadcaster and a professor of creative writing. She is a two-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award, which focuses on LGBT issues. She has written several novels include: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Costa First Novel Award), The Passion (John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), Sexing the Cherry, Written on the Body (Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction), Art and Lies, Gut Symmetries, Lighthousekeeping, and The Stone Gods.

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