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Jeanette Winterson Quotes about Literature

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The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

Jeanette Winterson
Home, Literature, Might
Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.94, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson
Risk, Literature, Take A Chance
Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.43, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?

Jeanette Winterson
Different, Goes On, Literature

Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.

Jeanette Winterson
Powerful, Literature, Matter

What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.

Jeanette Winterson
Literature, Invisible, Well Being

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

Jeanette Winterson
Thinking, Literature, Private Life
"Redemption songs". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.

Jeanette Winterson
Powerful, Literature, Language

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

Jeanette Winterson
Book, Literature, Connected

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

Jeanette Winterson
Character, Confusion, Literature

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

Jeanette Winterson
Book, Elements, Literature

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

Jeanette Winterson
Literature, Dies, Our Lives

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

Jeanette Winterson
Writing, Literature, Fables
"Redemption songs". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

Jeanette Winterson
Literature, Lasts, Ifs

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

Jeanette Winterson
Rumor, Literature, Legends

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.

Jeanette Winterson
Writing, Self, Literature
"Redemption songs" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

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
People, Where You Live, Literature

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

Jeanette Winterson
Self, People, Literature
"Redemption songs". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.

Jeanette Winterson
Character, Literature, Spotlight
"Redemption songs". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life.

Jeanette Winterson
Two, People, Literature

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

Jeanette Winterson
Historical Novels, Literature, Cloaks
"Redemption songs". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

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

Jeanette Winterson
Women, Thinking, Literature
"Redemption songs" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.

Jeanette Winterson
Literature, Excitement, Seems
"Redemption songs" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 22004.

Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.

Jeanette Winterson
Cosmos, Literature, Want

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

Jeanette Winterson
Literature, Causes, Trouble
"Redemption songs". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

Jeanette Winterson
School, Mind, Literature
"Redemption songs" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

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