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Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.

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
Writing
Work
Equals
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Discipline
Turn
Creative
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Freedom

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I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with it. Because they just take up so much space. I'm not under any illusions that I could have been where I am now in literary terms if I had been heterosexual. I really believe I would not be.
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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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Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.
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I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first.
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I believe in communication books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.
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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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It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
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I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel.
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There’s no story that’s the start of itself.
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We're living in a homogenized culture where everything is the same, and books are not a homogenized culture. They are extremely varied, and they're eccentric because they are the product of an individual mind. They are not, in any way, mediated.
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I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as part of the human condition and part of the continuum of writers.
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I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.
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What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.
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Perhaps all romance is like that not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.
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It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?
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Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.
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What you risk reveals what you value.
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Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value you don't have to go along with any of this you can think for yourself.
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I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
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