Jeanette Winterson Quotes

Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.

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I hate the word lesbian it tells you nothing its only purpose is to inflame.

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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.

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I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.

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I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

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Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

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Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

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Since I was born I had assumed that the world ran on very simple lines, like a larger version of our church. Now I was finding that even the church was sometimes confused. This was a problem. But not one I chose to deal with for many years more. The problem there and then was what was going to happen to me. The Victoria Hospital was big and frightening, and I couldn't even sing to any effect because I couldn't hear what I was singing. There was nothing to read except some dental notices and an instruction leaflet for the X-ray machine. I tried to build an igloo out of the orange peel but it kept falling down and even when I stood up I didn't have an Eskimo to put in it, so I had to invent a story about 'How Eskimo Got Eaten', which made me even more miserable. It's always the same with diversions you get involved.

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I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

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I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing I didn't think I had to.

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With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.

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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.

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The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

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

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Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.

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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. Some people's emanations are very strong, some people create themselves afresh outside of their own body. This is not fancy. If a potter has an idea, she makes it into a pot, and it exists beyond her, in its own separate life. She uses a physical substance to display her thoughts. If I use a metaphysical substance to display my thoughts, I might be anywhere at one time, influencing a number of different things, just as the potter and her pottery can exert influence in different places. There's a chance that I'm not here at all, that all the parts of me, running along all the choices I did and didn't make, for a moment brush agains teach other.

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Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.

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I believe in communication books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

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I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

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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.

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

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I don't believe in happy endings.

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Confidence and superiority It's the usual fundamentalist stuff I've got the truth, and you haven't.

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It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed

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I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

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