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
loving-someone wake-up chance
There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.
height depth strange
I have a head for heights it's true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many.
literature dies our-lives
We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.
naked disguise
Naked is the best disguise.
butterfly gun target
I can't catch her by copying her, I can't draw her with a borrowed stencil. She is all the things a lover should be and quite a few a lover should not. Pin her down? She's not a butterfly. I'm not a wrestler. She's not a target. I'm not a gun. Tell you what she is? She's not Lot no. 27 and I'm not one to brag.
wine trying bottles
Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.
love-is temptation desire
Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.
throat
Their throats were bare for God.
quests presence-of-love
In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one.
photograph lost lost-you
Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem.
hands thumbs way
What I wanted to do was to fasten my index finger and thumb at the bolts of your collar bone, push out, spread the web of my hand until it caught against your throat. You asked me if I wanted to strangle you. No, I wanted to fit you, not just in the obvious ways but in so many indentations.
honesty children mean
He doubted her. You must never doubt the one you love. But they might not be telling the truth. Never mind that. You tell them the truth. What do you mean? You can't be another person's honesty, child, but you can be your own. So what should I say? When? When I love someone? You should say it.
love-is way stories
This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in.
made neglected
She had made him possible. In that sense she was his god. Like God, she was neglected.