Jeanette Winterson Jeanette Winterson CBE is an English writer. Her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against convention. Other novels explore gender polarities and sexual identity and later ones the relations between humans and technology. (Jeanette Winterson Quotes) “About The Passion and about […]
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The best quotes by the author we have brought to you “All of one’s life is a struggle towards that; the narrow path between freedom and belonging. I have sometimes sacrificed freedom in order to belong, but more often I have given up all hope of belonging.” (The World and Other Places Quotes) Jeanette WintersonThe
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The best quotes by the author we have brought to you “At that time I could not imagine what would become of me, and I didn’t care. It was not judgement day, but another morning.” (Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Quotes) Jeanette WintersonOranges Are Not the Only Fruit “But not all dark places need
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The best quotes by the author we have brought to you “I have a head for heights it’s true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many.” (Written on the Body Quotes) Jeanette WintersonWritten on the Body “I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.” Jeanette WintersonWritten on
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The best quotes by the author we have brought to you “And the people I have hurt, the mistakes I have made, the damage to myself and others, wasn’t poor judgement; it was the place where love had hardened into loss.” (Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Quotes) Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When
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The best quotes by the author we have brought to you “Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. I believe there is always exposure, vulnerability, in the writing process, which is not to say it is either confessional
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The best quotes by the author we have brought to you “Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.” (The Passion Quotes by Jeanette Winterson) Jeanette WintersonThe Passion “He liked me because I am short. I flatter myself. He did not dislike me. He
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The best quotes by the author we have brought to you “Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?” (Sexing the Cherry Quotes) Jeanette WintersonSexing the Cherry “As your lover describes you, so you are.” Jeanette WintersonSexing the Cherry “Every journey
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The best quotes by the author we have brought to you “As for myself, I am splintered by great waves. I am coloured glass from a church window long since shattered. I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.” (Lighthousekeeping Quotes) Jeanette WintersonLighthousekeeping “Don’t regret your life, child, it will pass
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The best quotes by the author we have brought to you “Analogies fail, but I am capable of behaving like an eight-armed cephalopod while protesting the innocence of my two hands on the table.” (Gut Symmetries Quotes) Jeanette WintersonGut Symmetries “Don’t lie. You know you like to view but not to buy. I have found
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