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Jeanette Winterson Quotes

You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return Picture Quote #1

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world Picture Quote #1

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens Picture Quote #1

Confidence and superiority: It’s the usual fundamentalist stuff: I’ve got the truth, and you haven’t Picture Quote #1

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy Picture Quote #1

I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped Picture Quote #1

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I never wanted children. If I’d been deeply in love with a man and he’d wanted children, it would have been difficult Picture Quote #1

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle Picture Quote #1

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion Picture Quote #1

Life gives you enough hard knocks so it’s unlikely you’ll stay that sure of yourself Picture Quote #1

London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other Picture Quote #1

My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough Picture Quote #1

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One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life Picture Quote #1

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct Picture Quote #1

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn’t felt that Picture Quote #1

They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it? Picture Quote #1

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language Picture Quote #1

To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it Picture Quote #1

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Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know Picture Quote #1

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don’t do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day Picture Quote #1

With animal behavior, they’re all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy Picture Quote #1

Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create Picture Quote #1

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully Picture Quote #1

And you? Now that I have discovered you? Beautiful, dangerous, unleashed. Still I try to hold you, knowing that your body is faced with knives Picture Quote #1

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Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It’s a way of explaining the universe while leaving the universe unexplained, it’s a way of keeping it all alive, not boxing it into time Picture Quote #1

The buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I’m not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated Picture Quote #1

Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there Picture Quote #1

He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it Picture Quote #1

I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had Picture Quote #1

The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive Picture Quote #1

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You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return (Jeanette Winterson Quotes) Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world (Jeanette Winterson Quotes) Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens (Jeanette Winterson Quotes) Confidence and superiority: It’s the usual fundamentalist stuff: I’ve got the truth, and you haven’t (Jeanette Winterson Quotes) I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy (Jeanette Winterson Quotes) I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped (Jeanette Winterson Quotes) I never wanted children. If I’d been deeply in love with a man and he’d wanted children, it would have been difficult (Jeanette Winterson Quotes) I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle (Jeanette Winterson Quotes) I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion (Jeanette Winterson Quotes) Life gives you enough hard knocks so it’s unlikely you’ll stay that sure of yourself (Jeanette Winterson Quotes) London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other (Jeanette Winterson Quotes) My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough (Jeanette Winterson Quotes) One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life (Jeanette Winterson Quotes) The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct (Jeanette Winterson Quotes) There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn’t felt that (Jeanette Winterson Quotes) They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it? (Jeanette Winterson Quotes) To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language (Jeanette Winterson Quotes) To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it (Jeanette Winterson Quotes) Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know (Jeanette Winterson Quotes) When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don’t do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day (Jeanette Winterson Quotes) With animal behavior, they’re all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy (Jeanette Winterson Quotes) Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create (Jeanette Winterson Quotes) Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully (Jeanette Winterson Quotes) And you? Now that I have discovered you? Beautiful, dangerous, unleashed. Still I try to hold you, knowing that your body is faced with knives (Jeanette Winterson Quotes) Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It’s a way of explaining the universe while leaving the universe unexplained, it’s a way of keeping it all alive, not boxing it into time (Jeanette Winterson Quotes) The buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I’m not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated (Jeanette Winterson Quotes) Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there (Jeanette Winterson Quotes) He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it (Jeanette Winterson Quotes) I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had (Jeanette Winterson Quotes) The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive (Jeanette Winterson Quotes)

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