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
different goes-on literature
They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?
mirrors saws firsts
When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself.
morning flower night
What kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me. Not to think of you in the little things. Not to make the road wide for you, the table spread for you. To choose you out of habit not desire, to pass the flower seller without a thought. To leave the dishes unwashed, the bed unmade, to ignore you in the mornings, make use of you at night. To crave another while pecking your cheek. To say your name without hearing it, to assume it is mine to call.
lovers self-fulfilling-prophecy
As your lover describes you, so you are.
writing goes-on
I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.
evil nature-of-evil true-nature
..to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.
risk risk-it luminous
To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
light-years space blue
Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.
depression art healing
Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
guarantees boat conviction
She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.
political world duty
I am getting much more political as I get older. It's the duty of any writer, in particular, not to stand back from the world.
love powerful thinking
I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.
hero this-life
In this life, you have to be your own hero.
fighting men law
If you don't educate people well, then you're going to have a lot of violent, angry young men and women. You can go around saying they're all so violent, just throw them in jail, this is an underclass, what can you do? You can create fear. The issue of violence is very suitable for a repressive society. Then you can have more legislation, more police, more laws to fight crime, when all you need to do is to encourage people in a different way.