I would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial. Jeanette Winterson More Quotes by Jeanette Winterson More Quotes From Jeanette Winterson Trust your creativity. Jeanette Winterson creativity Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement. Jeanette Winterson excitement literature seems I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world. Jeanette Winterson important writing sex What the myths say, is that you have to be the hero of your own life. You're the one who has to take charge of who you are, you're the one who has to take control. And also, you're the one who can bring something to the community. Jeanette Winterson community hero healing What you eat is the most political thing you do every day Jeanette Winterson political We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves now. Jeanette Winterson elizabethan england There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that. Jeanette Winterson three tragedy revenge Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Jeanette Winterson stories You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved. Jeanette Winterson hole-in-my-heart over-it grief Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom. Jeanette Winterson discipline creative writing Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is both journey and surprise. And as everyone knows, even the past is altered, depending on, not the facts, but the interpretation. Jeanette Winterson journey stories past Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor. Jeanette Winterson legends rumor literature The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct. Jeanette Winterson lasts speak time When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day. Jeanette Winterson hours going-away time I never cared about money. Jeanette Winterson money Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent. Jeanette Winterson inspirational kids children I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness. Jeanette Winterson groups change writing I don't believe in happy endings. Jeanette Winterson happy-endings dont-believe believe Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself. Jeanette Winterson hard-life life-is-hard giving I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message in a bottle, a shout in the dark. It's saying, 'I'm here and I believe that you are somewhere and that you will answer if necessary across time, not necessarily in my lifetime.' Jeanette Winterson dark believe art
