I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.
Jeanette Winterson Quotes
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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| 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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