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If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

Jeanette Winterson

Change

Fiction

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

Jeanette Winterson

Time

Heart

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

Jeanette Winterson

Change

I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.

Jeanette Winterson

Work

I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

Jeanette Winterson

Truth

Confidence

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.