Author: Jeanette Winterson

Quotes

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.

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

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

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

- Jeanette Winterson

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

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

- Jeanette Winterson

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

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

- Jeanette Winterson

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

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

- Jeanette Winterson

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

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

- Jeanette Winterson

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

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

- Jeanette Winterson

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

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

- Jeanette Winterson

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.

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.

- Jeanette Winterson

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