Jeanette Winterson Quotes
My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere. My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough. Naked is the best disguise. Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor. One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life. Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places. 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. The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home. The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct. There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that. 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? To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language. To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it. We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then. What you risk reveals what you value. What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being. Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know. 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. Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me. With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.
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