Jeanette Winterson Quotes

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.
Jeanette Winterson

Love, Experience, Focus

I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.
Jeanette Winterson

Work, Best, Whatever

I don't believe in happy endings.
Jeanette Winterson

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.
Jeanette Winterson

Change, Book, Whatever

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
Jeanette Winterson

Art, Understand, Why

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
Jeanette Winterson

Change, Write, Group

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

Women, Men, Choosing

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.
Jeanette Winterson

Historical, Hated, Novels

I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.
Jeanette Winterson

Life, Open, Private

I never cared about money.
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

Love, Children, Difficult

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.
Jeanette Winterson

Truth, Middle, Somewhere

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

Themselves, Older, Deceive

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.
Jeanette Winterson

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

Wanted, Trouble, Cause

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.
Jeanette Winterson

Great, Character, Confusion

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

Wanted, Write, Rules

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.
Jeanette Winterson

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
Jeanette Winterson

Change, Yourself, Write

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

Emotional, Single, Books

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

Husband, Woman, Artist

Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.
Jeanette Winterson

Life, Yourself, Hard

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

Live, Small, Place

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

Self, Whole, Outer

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

Books, Image, Begin

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Biography

Nationality: British

Born: August 27, 1959

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