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28 Dec 2015
'Winterson's great gift is capturing the emotional heft of her stories with sentences that hum along, ... tmi.me/1fblJ9
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28 Dec 2015
'But Winterson's gift for capturing unspoken emotion with powerful but never overwritten lyricism...' (Dean Bakopoulos, NYT)
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jeanette winterson retweeted
7 Dec 2015
What can we really learn about about dating from Shakespeare? @wintersonwords investigates: bit.ly/1NG2kS0
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28 Oct 2015
"Everything is permissable if it's a good story...there are no rules, just trends" - @Wintersonworld spouting writing wisdom @wintersonwords
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14 Aug 2015
The pain would come back again and again if I didn't live in the grief. And the thought of it coming back was awful, unbearable.
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9 Jul 2015
(...) and the shadows and shapes of the house become objects, not suggestions, things that need to done, not a background to thought.
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9 Jul 2015
I have my best ideas at dawn or at nightfall, but not if I switch on the lights – then I start ... tmi.me/1f6ygk
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9 Jul 2015
To sit alone without any electric light is curiously creative.
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9 Jul 2015
They speak subjectively, they argue less, there are longer pauses.
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9 Jul 2015
Sitting round in candlelight or firelight, people start to talk about how they are feeling – their inner lives.
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9 Jul 2015
I have noticed that when all the lights are on, people tend to talk about what they are doing – their outer lives.
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8 Jun 2015
It's fashionable now to say that any mistake is made by both of you. That's not always true. One person can easily kill another.
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19 Apr 2015
We did what most people do; buried them under the floorboards and got used to the smell.
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19 Apr 2015
When we killed what we were to become what we are, what did we do with the bodies?
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17 Apr 2015
I interpret the world by confusing other people’s psychology with my own. I say I am open-minded but what I think is.
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10 Mar 2015
Our story is the old clash between history and home. Or to put it another way, the immeasurable impossible space that seems to divide the
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