Jeanette Winterson quotes - page 8

Yes I will come for you. Roll my strength into a ball for you. Throw myself across chance for you. I will be the bridge or the pulley because you are the dream. (Jeanette Winterson)
Here is some advice. If you want to keep your own teeth, make your own sandwiches .... View quote
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My heart returns to me what I turn away. I am my own master but not always master of myself. View quote
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Choice of subject, like choice of lover, is an intimate decision. View quote
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They were letting off fireworks down at the waterfront, the sky exploding in grenades of colour. Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty - even for a moment - it is enough. View quote
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I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility. View quote
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I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen. View quote
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I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write. View quote
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Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't. View quote
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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. View quote
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Naked is the best disguise. (Jeanette Winterson)
Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me. View quote
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If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you. View quote
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Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening. View quote
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I never cared about money. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected. View quote
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I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older. View quote
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Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself. View quote
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To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it. (Jeanette Winterson)
Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens. View quote
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If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us. View quote
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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. View quote
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Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement. View quote
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