I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.
Jeanette WintersonI want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.
Jeanette WintersonAcademics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
Jeanette WintersonAlthough wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.
Jeanette WintersonCreative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie. Ordinary professionalism and twenty years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places. That still needs what it always needs - a condition of complete simplicity, costing not less than everything.
Jeanette Winterson