Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

About Jeanette Winterson:

Jeanette Winterson is 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.
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The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.

Jeanette Winterson

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

I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.

Jeanette Winterson

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

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

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

Jeanette Winterson

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

Jeanette Winterson

I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Jeanette Winterson

I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

Jeanette Winterson

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

Jeanette Winterson

What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.

Jeanette Winterson

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Jeanette Winterson

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

Jeanette Winterson

You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play.

Jeanette Winterson

Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Jeanette Winterson

My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.

Jeanette Winterson

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.

Jeanette Winterson

Author Bio

  • NameJeanette Winterson
  • DescriptionEnglish writer
  • BornAugust 27, 1959
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Screenwriter; Novelist; Journalist
  • WorksOranges Are Not The Only Fruit
  • AwardsOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire; John Llewellyn Rhys Prize; Lambda Literary Award