3 December 2020 Jeanette Winterson I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
3 December 2020 Jeanette Winterson Confidence and superiority: It’s the usual fundamentalist stuff: I’ve got the truth, and you haven’t.
3 December 2020 Jeanette Winterson I believe in communication books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.
3 December 2020 Jeanette Winterson 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.
3 December 2020 Jeanette Winterson I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
3 December 2020 Jeanette Winterson I don’t write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
3 December 2020 Jeanette Winterson Ordinary professionalism and 20 years’ experience can accomplish a lot, but it can’t access the hidden places.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Jeanette Winterson The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
3 December 2020 Jeanette Winterson You never give away your heart you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?
3 December 2020 Jeanette Winterson If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what’s crushing you.
3 December 2020 Jeanette Winterson Art saved me it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
