Jeanette Winterson

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

— Jeanette Winterson

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

— Jeanette Winterson

#characters #get #outside #somewhere #spotlight

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

— Jeanette Winterson

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

— Jeanette Winterson

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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

#everybody #incestuous #know #live #london

Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#gives #hard #knocks #life #stay

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

— Jeanette Winterson

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

— Jeanette Winterson

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

— Jeanette Winterson

#continually #crushing #fiction #read #write

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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