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
confidence reality literature
Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.
heart giving asking
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?
naked disguise
Naked is the best disguise.
reality years experience
Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.
powerful matter literature
Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.
literature dies our-lives
We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.
heart perfect holy-grail
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.
truth thinking heterosexuality-is
I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.
change book literature
I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.
book literature rogues
Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
love book body
Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
want matter cosmos
Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.
writing self literature
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
love hurt self
Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.