Jeanette Winterson

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

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

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

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

I don’t write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness…

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens…

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years’ experience can accomplish a lot, but it can’t access the…

I don’t read reviews because by then it’s too late – whatever anyone says, the book…

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one…

Art saved me it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a…

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what’s crushing…

You never give away your heart you lend it from time to time. If it…

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement…