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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Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

Jeanette Winterson

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

In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.

Jeanette Winterson

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

Jeanette Winterson

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

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

Jeanette Winterson

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.

Jeanette Winterson

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

Jeanette Winterson

I don't believe in happy endings.

Jeanette Winterson

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

Jeanette Winterson

It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Jeanette Winterson

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

Jeanette Winterson

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

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

Jeanette Winterson

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

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

You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

Jeanette Winterson

I never cared about money.

Jeanette Winterson

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

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