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I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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Film Producer
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Science Fiction Writer
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Manchester
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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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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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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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Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels.
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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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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.
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Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
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Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.
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I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.
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The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.
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A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.
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Passion is for holidays, not homecoming.
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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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The key to happiness ... is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.
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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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Capitalism is like Japanese Knotweed: nothing kills it off. If there were only two people left on the planet, one of them would find a way of making money out of the other.
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We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.
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Age is information failure. The body loses fluency.
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