I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create. Just on the other side of creativity is the nuthouse - and I often notice people looking at me strangely when I am talking out loud, but there is no other way.
Jeanette WintersonThe ancients believed in fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so strong that the present is crushed by it. We lie helpless in the force of patterns inherited and patterns re-enacted by our own behavior. The burden is intolerable.
Jeanette WintersonI don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.
Jeanette WintersonIf you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
Jeanette Winterson