Jeanette Winterson Quotes

• I didn’t mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

  Jeanette Winterson

• I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

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• I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.

  Jeanette Winterson

• I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.

  Jeanette Winterson

• However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

  Jeanette Winterson

• Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

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• Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.

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• Confidence and superiority: It’s the usual fundamentalist stuff: I’ve got the truth, and you haven’t.

  Jeanette Winterson

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

  Jeanette Winterson

• Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.

  Jeanette Winterson

• Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

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• Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.

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• It’s true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn’t they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?

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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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