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Jeanette Winterson Quotes

British - Novelist | August 27, 1959 -

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

Jeanette Winterson

Change Group Write Bring About Any

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

Jeanette Winterson

Art People Luxury Why Understand

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

Change Book Late Whatever Too Late

I don't believe in happy endings.

Jeanette Winterson

Happy Believe Endings

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

Jeanette Winterson

Work Best I Am Doing I Can Whatever

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

Jeanette Winterson

Love Women I Am Write To Love Who

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

Jeanette Winterson

Listening Writing Language Everything

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

Jeanette Winterson

Confidence Truth You Got Stuff

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

Jeanette Winterson

Art Depression Me Innocence Back

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.

Jeanette Winterson

Marriage Freedom Excitement Outside

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

Jeanette Winterson

Situation Always See Rogue Happens

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

Work Love World Book Body Her

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