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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
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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I keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn't matter at all.
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It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of our own unconscious processes.
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Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.
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The journey is not linear, it is always back and forth, denying the calendar, the wrinkles and lines of the body.
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Why is the mind incapable of deciding its own subject matter? Why when we desperately want to think of one thing to we invariably think of another?
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We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel.
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In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun. This place will warm me, feed me and care for me. I will hold on to this pulse against other rhythms. The world will come and go in the tide of a day but here is her hand with my future in its palm.
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I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.
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Perhaps all romance is like that not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.
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Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.
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I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
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In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel, and there is no thought, no state of mind, that is not also a feeling state. Nobody can feel too much, though many of us work very hard at feeling too little. Feeling is frightening.
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We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes.
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I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
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To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.
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Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
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Trust me, I'm telling you stories.
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