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Make three wishes and they shall all come true. Make three hundred and I will honour every one
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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Tell me the story, Pew. . . . It was a woman. You always say that. There's always a woman somewhere, child a princess, a witch, a stepmother, a mermaid, a fairy godmother, or one as wicked as she is beautiful, or as beautiful as she is good. Is that the complete list? Then there is the woman you love. Who's she? That's another story.
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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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You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear?
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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
People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom of choice, but we've never been [nothing] more than a nation of robots. Everybody is seduced by corporate culture.
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To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself, I stay on the run.
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There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.
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Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.
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unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.
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Every believer is an anarchist at heart. True believers would rather see governments topple and history rewritten than scuff the cover of their faith.
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If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
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Y'know, Nature's unpredictable -- that's why we had to tame her. Maybe we went too far, but in principle we made the right decision.
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In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.
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She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.
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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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I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.
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I think we are worlds compressed into human form.
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I have met a great many people on their way towards God and I wonder why they have chosen to look for him rather than themselves.
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I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.
Jeanette Winterson
You have to engage with people who are different from you and try to work with their thinking and their mind. That's a real challenge.
Jeanette Winterson
