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[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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What you risk reveals what you value.
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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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The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time is eternally present and so all time is ours. There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. Thus the present is made rich.
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There are so many separate selves no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
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It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
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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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There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that.
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Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
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