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
heart shapes want
This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?
strangers-and-friends want
How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are?
want conquer climbs
I don't want to conquer you; I just want to climb you.
selfish want life-is
I don't want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. The only selfish life is a timid one. To hold back, to withdraw, to keep the best in reserve, both overvalues the self, and undervalues what the self is.
august want shade
August. We were arguing. You want love to be like this every day don't you? 92 degrees even in the shade.
want matter cosmos
Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.
missionary want orlando
Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.
reading want facts
I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact.
space people want
I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first.
want doe dare
What I want does exist if I dare to find it...
class community want
I didn't want to be in the teeming mass of the working class.[...] I didn't want to live and die in the same place with only a week at the seaside in between. I dreamed of escape - but what is terrible about industrialisation is that it makes escape necessary. In a system that generates masses, individualism is the only way out. But then what happens to community - to society?
opportunity want done
I want to get to the end and feel that I've done all I could, given the limitations and given the opportunities.
art hero want
I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel.
lying want language
Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.