Jeanette Winterson is a famous Novelist from United Kingdom, he/she is 65 years old and still alive, born August 27, 1959.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac virgo, who is known for Analyzing, Practical, Reflective, Observation, Thoughtful.
Our collection contains 48 quotes who is written / told by Jeanette.
"Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me"
"I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write"
"Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create"
"One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life"
"Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor"
"I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle"
"I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness"
"I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium"
"However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience"
"Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie"
"Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't"
"What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being"
"The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home"
"I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you"
"What you risk reveals what you value"
"The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct"
"I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility"
"You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?"
"Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places"
"My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough"
"Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself"
"I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion"
"I think we still believe that ambition is for boys"
"I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed"
"I don't believe in happy endings"
"I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen"
"I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people"
"Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence"
"Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement"
"Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully"
"I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older"
"I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously"
"I never cared about money"
"I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame"
"I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written"
"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"
"There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that"
"Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life"
"I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy"
"I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks"
"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens"
"You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play"
"Naked is the best disguise"
"My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere"
"I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult"
"I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped"
"I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to"
"Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening"
