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All Quotes by author - Jeanette Winterson

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

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

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

" 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 am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write. "

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

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

" I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy. "

" I'm not a quitter. "

" I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle. "

" Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself. "

" Naked is the best disguise. "

" Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places. "

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" The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home. "

" 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. "

" They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it? "

" To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it. "

" We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then. "

" Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know. "

" What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being. "

" What you risk reveals what you value. "

" When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day. "

" Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me. "

" With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy. "

" 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. "

" Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully. "

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