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Famous Jeanette Winterson Quotes
“I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.”
“Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.”
“Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it's not arrogant.”
“Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.”
“I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.”
“There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.”
“I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.”
“...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.”
“I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world.”
“Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.”
“If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.”
“I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.”
“I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.”
“Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.”