Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson, OBEis an award-winning English writer, who became famous with her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against conventional values. Some of her other novels have explored gender polarities and sexual identity. Winterson is also a broadcaster and a professor of creative writing...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 August 1959
Jeanette Winterson quotes about
reading writing thinking
reading is not a passive act. It's a creative act. It's a relationship between the writer and a person the writer will probably never meet. I think it's very wrong to write in a way that leaves no room for the reader to maneuver. I don't want to get in the way. What I'd really like to do is to perform the Indian Rope Trick - go higher and higher and eventually disappear.
women men thinking
I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.
reading fiction passionate
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.
want conquer climbs
I don't want to conquer you; I just want to climb you.
selfish want life-is
I don't want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. The only selfish life is a timid one. To hold back, to withdraw, to keep the best in reserve, both overvalues the self, and undervalues what the self is.
doors sight wonderful
Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.
spirituality impossible worship
The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something.
want doe dare
What I want does exist if I dare to find it...
disappointment secret might
We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don't heal by forming a secret society of one - by assessing about the only other 'one' we might admit, and being doomed to disappointment.
hero healing community
What the myths say, is that you have to be the hero of your own life. You're the one who has to take charge of who you are, you're the one who has to take control. And also, you're the one who can bring something to the community.
political
What you eat is the most political thing you do every day
rumor legends nobody-knows
Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.
marriage gun python
Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python.
cities arches world
Today we are all speeding under the golden arms of the arches into our city, into our lives, into the world that is a stream of information, ceaselessly collected and projected.