Jeanette Winterson Quotes

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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

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

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

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• Naked is the best disguise.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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• If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

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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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