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We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in movement, they're always twisting back on each other. I think the straight line is such a lie.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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