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There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that. (Jeanette Winterson)
I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed. View quote
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Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break. View quote
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I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people. View quote
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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience. View quote
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I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks. View quote
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I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously. View quote
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In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey. (Jeanette Winterson)
My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere. View quote
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I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped. View quote
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I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you. View quote
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I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to. View quote
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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. View quote
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Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know. View quote
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We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then. View quote
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To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language. View quote
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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. View quote
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My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough. (Jeanette Winterson)
It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband. View quote
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I think we still believe that ambition is for boys. View quote
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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. View quote
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I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame. View quote
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