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Trust your creativity.

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
Creativity
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Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.
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Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.
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In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one.
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Slightest accidents open up new worlds.
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Cheating is easy. There's no swank to infidelity. To borrow against the trust someone has placed in you costs nothing at first. You get away with it, you take a little more and a little more until there is no more to draw on. Oddly, your hands should be full with all that taking but when you open them there's nothing there.
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I would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial.
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I keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn't matter at all.
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Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.
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I hate the word lesbian it tells you nothing its only purpose is to inflame.
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Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not.
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For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.
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Their throats were bare for God.
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I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.
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Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing the universe to go on being unexplained and we seem to need this even now, in our twentieth-century grandeur.
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In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead.
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Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.
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I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.
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We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't.
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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.
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When I was born, my father wanted to drown me, but my mother persuaded him to let me live in disguise, to see if I could bring any wealth to the household.
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