Jeanette Winterson

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

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

You never give away your heart you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

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

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

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

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

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

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

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

Art saved me it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

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