Jeanette Winterson Quotes

British - Novelist | August 27, 1959 -

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

Jeanette Winterson

CommunicationPeopleIdeasBelieve

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.

Jeanette Winterson

LoveHurtSelfYouPlaceWeak

Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.

Jeanette Winterson

MeListeningCreateSaidNeedBeing

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

Jeanette Winterson

GodMeMysteryYouWantMatter

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

WorkTimeDayGoAnythingGet

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

Jeanette Winterson

Well-BeingInvisibleOwnUsOur

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

ValueYouRiskReveals

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

Jeanette Winterson

DieWillIrrelevantOurShallThen

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

Jeanette Winterson

PastLanguageYouCreateNeedWould

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

Jeanette Winterson

WhoManyFeltSeparateCreatively

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

WorkTimeOverInterestUsStill

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

Jeanette Winterson

LifeHeartYouPerfectFindNever

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