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
peculiar capacity form
Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar.
invisible familiar objects
Like all familiar objects, it had become invisible.
lines take-me walks
Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same.
real believe writing
Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. I believe there is always exposure, vulnerability, in the writing process, which is not to say it is either confessional or memoir. Simply, it is real.
two people way
Capitalism is like Japanese Knotweed: nothing kills it off. If there were only two people left on the planet, one of them would find a way of making money out of the other.
men idols sides
The universe has no sides, no end, can't be mapped. Enough to make a man talk about God, make a man superstitious and worship an idol. The science never gets as far as the strangeness.
comfort purpose may
It may be that there was no reason or purpose, for mankind must always be finding reasons where there are none, and comfort in a purpose that hardly exists.
reading waiting stories
Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse -- there is more than one reading. The story won't stop, can't stop, it goes on telling itself, waiting for an intervention that changes what will happen next.
passion wells
Passion is not well bred.
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.