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Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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It's great to win a few prizes early on. It helps a writer to get noticed and to get some sales. It can also be a pain in the arse because it gets in the way of the quiet, contemplative time every writer needs, but which is particularly important when you are a new writer finding your own voice, and pursuing the things that interest you.
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Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall.
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Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.
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It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power.
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Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.
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Life was a pre-death experience.
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Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all the world. As a happy ending? As an ending.
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As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.
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[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.
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When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.
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As people get older they have these rigid patterns that they impose on themselves, and it kills them. They become dull, they become dead to new experience, they become afraid, biased, and bigoted. It's really simply to do with refusing new experience.
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She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.
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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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Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing the universe to go on being unexplained and we seem to need this even now, in our twentieth-century grandeur.
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Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend what others broke. We can talk with the dead.
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unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.
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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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You know every cell in our bodies is completely renewed every seven years, so how can we talk about being the same person? We're absolutely not.
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