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Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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Film Producer
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Science Fiction Writer
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Short Story Writer
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Manchester
England
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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.
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the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.
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Even the most solid of things, and the most real, the best-loved and the well-known, are only hand shadows on the wall. Empty space and points of light.
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We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in movement, they're always twisting back on each other. I think the straight line is such a lie.
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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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I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create. Just on the other side of creativity is the nuthouse - and I often notice people looking at me strangely when I am talking out loud, but there is no other way.
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I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.
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It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.
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Knowing that books are something that is hidden, that almost has that alchemical quality to it. There is a secret society in here, and if you belong to it, you'll be able to transform your lead into gold. I have that rather magical sense about books - that they do, somehow, have special powers.
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What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?
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I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.
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When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.
Jeanette Winterson
Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.
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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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I feel in colour, strong tones that I hue down for the comfort of the pastelly inclined. Beige and magnolia and a hint of pink are what the well-decorated heart is wearing who wants my blood red and vein-blue?
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I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.
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What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning?
Jeanette Winterson
Love ... Just Nature's way of getting one person to pay the bills for another person.
Jeanette Winterson
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'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.
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