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
light desire intensity
Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light.
hurt perfect laughing
I struggled in my mind with all kinds of defenses. Should I be hurt? Surprised? Should I laugh it off? I wanted to say something cruel to expiate my anger and to justify myself. But it's difficult with old friends; difficult because it's so easy. You know one another as well as lovers do and you have had less to pretend about. I poured myself a drink and shrugged. 'Nothing's perfect.
love focus desire
However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.
crazy animal elements
With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.
thinking hype people
I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.
stupid thinking literature
I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.
work stressful-situations people
I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.
friends people enough
My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.
school mind literature
I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.
book cat garden
I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
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.