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
england elizabethan
We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves now.
writing discipline creative
Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.
believe men thinking
I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with it. Because they just take up so much space. I'm not under any illusions that I could have been where I am now in literary terms if I had been heterosexual. I really believe I would not be.
rumor legends nobody-knows
Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.
giving hard-life enough
Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.
inspirational children kids
Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.
mother art thinking
Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.
Everything is imprinted for ever with what it once was.
lying believe borders
True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just science fiction--don't believe it. Like the universe, there is no end.
political
What you eat is the most political thing you do every day
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.
want doe dare
What I want does exist if I dare to find it...
women men thinking
I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.
time lasts speak
The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.