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"Most people who lose their lives because life might be down for them only refuse to know what a tuber of yam that is put into the soil goes through before it comes up as a fresh green creeping plant to bear yet another bigger tuber."
"Your this beautiful ship that will sail a long way, and I'd only be your anchor""A ship without an anchor can never be at rest."
"What runs through a person like water through a sieve."
"Like the cotton-carder who combs tangled cotton into a long bundle of fibre, you take all my knotted fragments and comb them into light."
"Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things."
"When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor."
Explore more quotes by Jeanette Winterson
"If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you."
"London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other."
"To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language."
"Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't."
"I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium."
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