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
age information fluency
Age is information failure. The body loses fluency.
money thinking years
One just spends as much money as one has. Very peculiar that! You never actually have any money. You think, If I had this much money ten years ago, I would have thought I was amazingly rich, but I still manage to spend it all and not have any left.
fall leaving misery
Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall.
marriage gun python
Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python.
love way pay
Love ... Just Nature's way of getting one person to pay the bills for another person.
love next experiments
Love is an experiment ... what happens next is always surprising.
love sex real
What a strange world it is where you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. I'm talking about the real thing, the grand passion, which may not allow affection or convenience or happiness. 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. That's the size of it, the immensity of it. It's not proper, it's not clean, it's not containable.
hate war lying
One of the many, many things I hate about war is how it trivializes the personal. The big themes, the broad sweep, the emergency measures, the national identity, all the things that a particular kind of man with a particular kind of power urge adores, these are the things that become important. War gives the lie to the personal, drowns it in meetings, alarms, sacrifices. The personal is only allowed to return as death.
jobs work simple
Life is so simple when you're just doing your job.
writing written
Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.
fighting animal flight
Although I sometimes pose as a fight animal, I'm really a flight animal.
cities arches world
Today we are all speeding under the golden arms of the arches into our city, into our lives, into the world that is a stream of information, ceaselessly collected and projected.
men matter use
There must be some part of Man that is more than his daily round. Some part of him that will use his profit on a matter of no profit.
silence needs speak
It is silence that most needs an answering -- when I can no longer speak, hear me.