Jeanette Winterson Quotes

• What’s invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.

  Jeanette Winterson

• We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

  Jeanette Winterson

• To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.

  Jeanette Winterson

• To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

  Jeanette Winterson

• There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn’t felt that.

  Jeanette Winterson

• The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

  Jeanette Winterson

• The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

  Jeanette Winterson

• Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you’ll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

  Jeanette Winterson

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

  Jeanette Winterson

• One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life.

  Jeanette Winterson

• Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It’s all legend, it is all rumor.

  Jeanette Winterson

• Naked is the best disguise.

  Jeanette Winterson

• My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.

  Jeanette Winterson

• My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight’s not on them. But they do get somewhere.

  Jeanette Winterson

• My books always begin with a sentence and an image – not necessarily connected.

  Jeanette Winterson

• Many people feel their outer self isn’t the whole self.

  Jeanette Winterson

• London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.

  Jeanette Winterson

• Life gives you enough hard knocks so it’s unlikely you’ll stay that sure of yourself.

  Jeanette Winterson

• It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.

  Jeanette Winterson

• In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.

  Jeanette Winterson

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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