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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.

~Jeanette Winterson

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

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What you risk reveals what you value.

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

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To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

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There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.

~Jeanette Winterson

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The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

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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.

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One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life.

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Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

~Jeanette Winterson

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: August 27th, 1959

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