Jeanette Winterson Quotes
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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.
Jeanette Winterson
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Author Details:
Type:
Novelist Quotes
Category:
British Novelist Quotes
Date of Birth:
August 27, 1959
Nationality:
British
Amazon:
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Related Authors:
Roald Dahl
Charlotte Bronte
Mary Wesley
Bernard Cornwell
Hector Hugh Munro
Anne Perry
Tom Holt
Elizabeth Gaskell
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Select Jeanette Winterson Quotations:
You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play.
Jeanette Winterson
What you risk reveals what you value.
Jeanette Winterson
I don't believe in happy endings.
Jeanette Winterson
I never cared about money.
Jeanette Winterson
My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.
Jeanette Winterson
The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
Jeanette Winterson
I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
Jeanette Winterson
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Quote Keywords:
Contemporary,
Extinct,
Interest,
Lasts,
Over,
Speaks,
Still,
Time,
Us,
Which,
Work
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Which,
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All Jeanette Winterson Quotations:
Academics love to make theories about...
Always in my books, I like...
Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and...
Art saved me; it got me...
Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist...
Creative work is incredibly difficult, and...
Everything in writing begins with language. Language...
However it is debased or misinterpreted...
I am a writer who happens...
I am not interested in genres...
I believe in communication; books communicate...
I didn't mind being unpopular at...
I don't believe in happy endings.
I don't read reviews because by...
I don't understand why people talk...
I don't write for any group...
I had relationships with men as...
I hate the word lesbian; it...
I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.
I like to look at how...
I like to think the price...
I live alone, with cats, books...
I never cared about money.
I never wanted children. If I'd...
I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are...
I think it would be very...
I think people deceive themselves about themselves...
I think we still believe that...
I wanted to cause trouble, but...
I wanted to invent myself as...
I wanted to write a new...
I'm not a quitter.
If we make anything that lasts...
If you continually write and read...
In my subconscious, my books were...
It is helpful for a woman...
Life gives you enough hard knocks...
London is a small place, and...
Many people feel their outer self...
My books always begin with a...
My characters are always on the...
My friends and the people who...
Naked is the best disguise.
Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person...
One room is always enough for...
Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can...
Quest is at the heart of...
The curious are always in some...
The work that lasts over time...
There are so many separate selves...
They say that every snowflake is...
To create a past that seemed...
To me, life, for all its...
We shall all die, and our...
What you risk reveals what you value.
What's invisible to us is also...
Whatever is powerful to you can...
When it is time to get...
Whether you want to call it...
With animal behavior, they're all fine...
Writers have to have a knack...
You never give away your heart...
You play. You win. You play...
Your weak point is the open...
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