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If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.
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I felt like a thief with a bagful of stolen glances.
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Great control and great discipline are necessary when you reach your own editing stage of the book, but in the early stages you have to be prepared to let anything happen and to get it wrong or go off track. The development of a character is not smooth or simple - it is as tricky as meeting someone new whom you would like to know better.
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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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He: What’s the matter with you? Me: Nothing. Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly numbing my soul. Caught by nothing, saying nothing, nothingness becomes me. When I am nothing they will say surprised in the way that they are forever surprised, but there was nothing the matter with her.
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But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.
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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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A character has a distinctive voice - you should be able to hear them in your head and conduct a conversation with them while you're out walking. If the answers surprise you, you know it's the character speaking and not you.
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There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.
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..to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.
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I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood.
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