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Jeanette Winterson [1959-0] British

Rank: 103
Novelist, Writer

Jeanette Winterson, OBE is an award-winning English writer, who became famous with her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against conventional values.

Experience, Truth, Alone, Art, Communication, Love, Pet

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What you risk reveals what you value.		101
I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.	Truth	102
Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.	Art	103
Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.		104
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.	Experience	105
Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.	Experience	106
The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.	Love, Truth	107
Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.		108
Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.		109
My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.		110
If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.		111
I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.		112
The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.		113
I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.	Alone, Pet	114
I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.	Communication	115
Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.		116
You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?		117
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?		118
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.		119
Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.		120
Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.		121
I'm not a quitter.		122
With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.		123
To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.		124
One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life.		125
Naked is the best disguise.		126
I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.		201
I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.		202
I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.		203
I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.		204
I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.		205
Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.		206
I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.		207
Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.		208
Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.		209
What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.		210
The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.		211
My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.		212
London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.		213
Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.		214
In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.		215
If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.		216
I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.		217
I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.		218
I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.		219
I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.		220
Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.		221
Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.		222
You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play.		223
My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.		224
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.		225
When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.		226
We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.		301
To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.		302
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.		303
It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.		304
I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.		305
I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.		306
I never cared about money.		307
I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.		308
I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.		309
I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.		310
I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.		311
I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.		312
I don't believe in happy endings.		313

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