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About Jeanette Winterson
English author
Jeanette Winterson is an English author. She is known for her fiction, especially her debut novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, a semi-autobiographical story about a lesbian growing up in an English Pentecostal community. Her later novels often explore gender and sexual identity, and her more recent work turns to the relationship between people and technology. Her books have been translated into nearly 20 languages, and she also broadcasts and teaches creative writing.
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- “I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.”Jeanette Winterson
- “The inside and the outside of our lives are each the shell where we learn to live.”Jeanette Winterson
Education: more sayings
- “I came from a traditional immigrant family where education meant there were only a few valid paths: doctor or…”Suheir Hammad
- “To find out how much we can do or how far we can go, we have to challenge ourselves constantly.”Debasish Mridha
- “Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn…”Daniel Keyes
Art: more sayings
- “I am thrilled to be working with Alex Sanchez as the artist on 'Katana.' His work is wildly eclectic, excitin…”Ann Nocenti
- “Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.”Anthony Shadid
- “It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.”George Grosz
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Books by Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
1991
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
2012
Weight
2006
The passion
1989
The stone gods
2007