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
memories world looks
Nothing can be forgotten. Nothing can be lost. The universe itself is one vast memory system. Look back and you will find the beginnings of the world.
falling-in-love world probability
The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.
children world stories
Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all the world. As a happy ending? As an ending.
world new-world accidents
Slightest accidents open up new worlds.
sleep world wide-awake
She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.
growing-up our-world size
Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which involves both expansion and shrinkage, as some parts of us develop and others must be allowed to disappear...Rigidity never works; we end up being the wrong size for our world.
doe world
We live in a world of buy it or leave it. Love does not signify.
world language poet
…only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world.
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.
thinking world form
I think we are worlds compressed into human form.
sex love-is world
What a strange world this is when you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo.
reading world dialogue
In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead.
fear world enough
The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.
littles way world
There's so little wonder left in the world because we've seen everything one way or another'.