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

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

Jeanette Winterson

Naked is the best disguise.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Jeanette Winterson

I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

Jeanette Winterson

I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Jeanette Winterson

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

Jeanette Winterson

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

Jeanette Winterson

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

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

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Jeanette Winterson

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Jeanette Winterson

My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Jeanette Winterson

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

Jeanette Winterson

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

Jeanette Winterson

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

Jeanette Winterson

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

Jeanette Winterson

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

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

I don't believe in happy endings.

Jeanette Winterson

I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.

Jeanette Winterson

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Jeanette Winterson

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

Jeanette Winterson

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.

Jeanette Winterson

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

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

Jeanette Winterson

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

Jeanette Winterson

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

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.

Jeanette Winterson

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Jeanette Winterson

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

Jeanette Winterson