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
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.
risk literature take-a-chance
What you risk reveals what you value.
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.
ifs i-can
If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going.
voice listening knack
Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.
space shapes another-chance
In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.
love water neglect
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.