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There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
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Where did love begin? What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea? Was there a day, exhausted and weary, dragging home food, arms cut and scarred, that you saw yellow flowers and, not knowing what you did, picked them because I love you?
Jeanette Winterson
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The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.
Jeanette Winterson -
I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.
Jeanette Winterson -
I never cared about money.
Jeanette Winterson -
What you risk reveals what you value.
Jeanette Winterson -
London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.
Jeanette Winterson -
You say we are not one, you say truly there are two of us. Yes, there were two of us, but we were one. As for myself, I am splintered by great waves. I am coloured glass from a church window long since shattered. I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.
Jeanette Winterson
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What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.
Jeanette Winterson -
Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.
Jeanette Winterson -
It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
Jeanette Winterson -
I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.
Jeanette Winterson -
I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.
Jeanette Winterson -
I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
Jeanette Winterson
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When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.
Jeanette Winterson -
I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.
Jeanette Winterson -
I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
Jeanette Winterson -
I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.
Jeanette Winterson -
Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.
Jeanette Winterson -
I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.
Jeanette Winterson