Website www.jeanettewinterson.com Jeanette Winterson, OBE (born 27 August 1959) is a British writer, broadcaster and activist. Read full biography of Jeanette Winterson →
Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.
Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.
Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.
The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.
Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.
Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.
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 wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.
In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.
London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.