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
blind effort few kidding less manage manages mostly nature people
Very few people ever manage what nature manages without effort and mostly without fail. We don't know who we are or how to function, much less how to bloom. Blind nature. Homo Sapiens. Who's kidding whom?
british-novelist
You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play.
british-novelist incredibly tests work
Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.
being-yourself loneliness knowing
Loneliness isn't about being by yourself. That's fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. Loneliness is about finding a landing-place, or not, and knowing that, whatever you do, you can go back there. The opposite of loneliness isn't company, it's return. A place to return.
lovers self-fulfilling-prophecy
As your lover describes you, so you are.
light-years space blue
Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.
accused understood knows
I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood.
missionary want orlando
Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.
loving-someone wake-up chance
There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.
throat
Their throats were bare for God.