Website www.jeanettewinterson.com Jeanette Winterson, OBE (born 27 August 1959) is a British writer, broadcaster and activist. Read full biography of Jeanette Winterson →
My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.
The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.
You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play.
My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.
I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.
Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.
I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.
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.
Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
I don't believe in happy endings.
I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.
Website www.jeanettewinterson.com Jeanette Winterson, OBE (born 27 August 1959) is a British writer, broadcaster and activist.