Jeanette Winterson Quotes
I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.
I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
I never cared about money.
I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.
I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.
I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.
I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.
I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.
I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.
I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.
I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
I'm not a quitter.
If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.
If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.
It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.
London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.
Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.
My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.
