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Jeanette Winterson
August 27, 1959 -
Nationality: British
Category: Novelist
Subcategory: British Novelist

Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.

   

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

   

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

   

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

   

You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

   

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

   

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

   

To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.

   

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

   

I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.

   

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

   

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

   

Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.

   

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

   

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.

   

With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.

   

You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play.

   

My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.

   

I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.

   

I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

   

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