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
writing written
Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.
fighting animal flight
Although I sometimes pose as a fight animal, I'm really a flight animal.
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.
men matter use
There must be some part of Man that is more than his daily round. Some part of him that will use his profit on a matter of no profit.
silence needs speak
It is silence that most needs an answering -- when I can no longer speak, hear me.
suicide survival records
History is not a suicide note -- it is a record of our survival.
night bridges water
We didn't build our bridges simply to avoid walking on water. Nothing so obvious. A bridge is a meeting place. A neutral place. A casual place. Enemies will choose to meet on a bridge and end their quarrel in that void... For lovers, a bridge is a possibility, a metaphor of their chances. And for the traffic in whispered goods, where else but a bridge in the night?
dream heart night
There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be driven out of the heart like the moneychangers from the temple. Maybe they can, if you patrol your weak points day and night, don't look, don't smell, don't dream.
space people want
I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first.
holiday passion homecoming
Passion is for holidays, not homecoming.
past forget easy
How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.
accused understood knows
I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood.
life mistake civilization
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.
life cynical one-day
How is it that one day life is orderly and you are content, a little cynical perhaps but on the whole just so, and then without warning you find the solid floor is a trapdoor and you are now in another place whose geography is uncertain and whose customs are strange?