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
effort impossible
Only the impossible is worth the effort.
pain winning voice
It's great to win a few prizes early on. It helps a writer to get noticed and to get some sales. It can also be a pain in the arse because it gets in the way of the quiet, contemplative time every writer needs, but which is particularly important when you are a new writer finding your own voice, and pursuing the things that interest you.
accused understood knows
I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood.
suicide survival records
History is not a suicide note -- it is a record of our survival.
two people way
Capitalism is like Japanese Knotweed: nothing kills it off. If there were only two people left on the planet, one of them would find a way of making money out of the other.
determined quantum every-second
This is a quantum universe ... neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene.
homosexual rhinoceros
A homosexual is further away from a woman than a rhinoceros.
poet satisfied
The poet will not be satisfied with recording, the poet will have to transform.
love-is ideas vivid
Love is vivid. I never wanted the pale version. Love is full strength. I never wanted the diluted version. I never shied away from love's hugeness but I had no idea that love could be as reliable as the sun. The daily rising of love.
two people rooms
One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life.
self people feels
Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.
historical-novels cloaks fluttering
I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.
money
I never cared about money.
time going-away hours
When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.