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Trust me, I'm telling you stories.

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
Telling
Trust
Stories

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I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood.
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Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.
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It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.
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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.
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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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I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.
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This is a quantum universe ... neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene.
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Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.
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History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.
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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.
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I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
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Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer in for longer than an instant. Writing exhibits boldness. Writing restores power to exalt, unnerve, shock, and transform us. Writing does not imitate life, it anticipates life.
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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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We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don't heal by forming a secret society of one - by assessing about the only other 'one' we might admit, and being doomed to disappointment.
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The key to happiness ... is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.
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I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.
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the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated.
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Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. I believe there is always exposure, vulnerability, in the writing process, which is not to say it is either confessional or memoir. Simply, it is real.
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Age is information failure. The body loses fluency.
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