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

Jeanette Winterson

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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
Author
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
Manchester
England
Lesbian
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Write
Happens
Women
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I care about doing the work as best as I can do, and that it should go on reaching people. It's not about fame and it's not about me. It's about creating something that might allow someone else to create something.
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She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.
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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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I walked out to brood on this life of ours, which seems from birth to death to be a steady loss, disguised by sudden gains and happiness, which persuade us of good fortune, when all the while the glass is emptying.
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Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)
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I don't believe in happy endings.
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Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse -- there is more than one reading. The story won't stop, can't stop, it goes on telling itself, waiting for an intervention that changes what will happen next.
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Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.
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If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.
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Our broken society is not born out of the triumph of the individual, but out of his effacement. He vanishes, she vanishes, ask them who they are and they will offer you a wallet or a child.
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I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.
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I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
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Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?
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I lay there, stretched out, looking at the one star visible through the tiny window of the room. Only connect. How can you do that when the connections are broken?
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When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.
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I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing I didn't think I had to.
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Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.
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The key to happiness ... is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.
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