Jeanette Winterson Quotes

• I’m not a quitter.

  Jeanette Winterson

• I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.

  Jeanette Winterson

• I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

  Jeanette Winterson

• I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.

  Jeanette Winterson

• I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

  Jeanette Winterson

• I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.

  Jeanette Winterson

• I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

  Jeanette Winterson

• I think heteros*xuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

  Jeanette Winterson

• I never wanted children. If I’d been deeply in love with a man and he’d wanted children, it would have been difficult.

  Jeanette Winterson

• I never cared about money.

  Jeanette Winterson

• I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.

  Jeanette Winterson

• I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

  Jeanette Winterson

• I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

  Jeanette Winterson

• I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.

  Jeanette Winterson

• I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn’t choosing; I didn’t think I had to.

  Jeanette Winterson

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

  Jeanette Winterson

• I don’t understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it’s a mind-altering possibility.

  Jeanette Winterson

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

  Jeanette Winterson

• 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.

  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.

Related Authors

• Guillermo del Toro
• Mary Johnston
• Sarah Ockler
• D. H. Lawrence
• Dorothy Gilman
• Ouida
• Frederick Marryat
• Jill Ciment
• Suzanne Young
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 25th December

Births

• 1949 - Sissy Spacek
• 1924 - Rod Serling
• 1945 - Noel Redding
• 1916 - Ahmed Ben Bella
• 1971 - Dido Armstrong

Deaths

• 1635 - Samuel De Champlain
• 1962 - Warren R. Austin
• 1935 - Paul Bourget
• 1968 - Upton Sinclair
• 1938 - Karel Capek