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

— 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

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

— Jeanette Winterson

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One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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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

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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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They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it? ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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

— Jeanette Winterson

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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

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

— Jeanette Winterson

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