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
blind effort few kidding less manage manages mostly nature people
Very few people ever manage what nature manages without effort and mostly without fail. We don't know who we are or how to function, much less how to bloom. Blind nature. Homo Sapiens. Who's kidding whom?
people devil ordinary
I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.
thinking people long
Going back after a long time will make you made, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different.
thinking hype people
I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.
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.
people feelings
When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself in.
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.
space people want
I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first.
hero people causes
If there's one thing I can't stand it's a hero without a cause. People like that just make trouble so that they can solve it.
people where-you-live london
London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.
self people feels
Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.
thinking rivers people
The trouble is that when most people are apathetic ordinary people ... have to go too far, have to ruin their lives and be made an object of scorn just to get the point across. Did they really think I'd rather be camping by a polluted river than sitting in my own flat with my things about me?
god people looks
I have met a great many people on their way towards God and I wonder why they have chosen to look for him rather than themselves.