"Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out."

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Jeanette Winterson

#Writing Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Stories Quotes

“More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting.”
“But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.”
“Experience is the highest authority.”
“Bloggers are people too you rappers!”
“There is no fountain of youth, What you put into your body is what you get out of it. You would not feed your dog a coffee and doughnut for breakfast followed by a cigarette. You will kill the damn dog.”
“The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom.”
“We may need to let go of our beliefs and ideas about life in order to have life.”
“For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.”

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