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This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in.
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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Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python.
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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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