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You're never alone with a book, are you? It's a dialogue.
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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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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In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one.
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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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We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel.
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The body shuts down when it has too much to bear goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.
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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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I care about doing the work as best as I can do, and that it should go on reaching people. It's not about fame and it's not about me. It's about creating something that might allow someone else to create something.
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I know I've had an unusual beginning and a colourful life, but that wouldn't matter if I couldn't make it speak to other people.
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Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
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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.
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Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.
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Knowing that books are something that is hidden, that almost has that alchemical quality to it. There is a secret society in here, and if you belong to it, you'll be able to transform your lead into gold. I have that rather magical sense about books - that they do, somehow, have special powers.
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Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.
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It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.
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I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me to write at all.
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...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.
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What I want does exist if I dare to find it.
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