Jeanette Winterson Quotes
66 Jeanette Winterson quotes:
"I don't believe in happy endings."
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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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"I'm not a quitter."
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"If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us."
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"If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you."
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"London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other."
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"My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere."
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"There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that."
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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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"Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me."
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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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"This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?"
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"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?"
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"I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium."
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"Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement."
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"Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence."
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"I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks."
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"I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy."
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"I think we still believe that ambition is for boys."
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"In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey."
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