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"I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize."
"CALVIN:Our hero regains consciousness at the feet of a sarcastic alien."
"Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist."
"And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't know if there's ever been a team put together the way we are - where one person does the theological way out and suggestions, and the other person goes into the cave and does the fiction writing."
"And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured."
"Did you wake him?""If I say yes, will you spank me?"Syn rolled his eyes. "You're horrible, Mari."
"When one day an expedition was sent to the spatial coordinates that Voojagig had claimed for the planet they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying."
"Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by."
"Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets."
Explore more quotes by Jeanette Winterson
"The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I find something of love's nature. In my desire for you, I burn at the right temperature to walk through love's fire. So when you ask me why I cannot love you more calmly, I answer that to love you calmly is not to love you at all."
"St. Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than to marry."
"There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that."
"I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings."
"You'll get over it. It's the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life forever. You don't get over it because it is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you, and no one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?"
"Saddest of all are the woman who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue."
"Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox, that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there."
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