#ch

There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland. ↗

— Johnny Winter

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I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#being #else #everyone #heathen #i

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

— Jeanette Winterson

#know #matter #never #powerful #somebody

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

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

— Jeanette Winterson

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I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#character #confusion #deal #did #fictional

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

— Jeanette Winterson

#continually #crushing #fiction #read #write

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

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

— Jeanette Winterson

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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

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