Jeanette Winterson Quote
And here's the shock -- when you risk it, when you do the right thing, when you arrive at the borders of common sense and cross into unknown territory, leaving behind you all the familiar smells and lights, you do not experience great joy and huge energy.You are unhappy. Things get worse.It is a time of mourning. Loss. Fear. We bullet ourselves through with questions. And then we feel shot and wounded.And then all the cowards come out and say, 'See, I told you so.'In fact, they told you nothing.
Jeanette Winterson
And here's the shock -- when you risk it, when you do the right thing, when you arrive at the borders of common sense and cross into unknown territory, leaving behind you all the familiar smells and lights, you do not experience great joy and huge energy.You are unhappy. Things get worse.It is a time of mourning. Loss. Fear. We bullet ourselves through with questions. And then we feel shot and wounded.And then all the cowards come out and say, 'See, I told you so.'In fact, they told you nothing.
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About Jeanette Winterson
Her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was a semi-autobiographical novel about a lesbian growing up in an English Pentecostal community. Other novels explore gender polarities and sexual identity and later ones the relations between humans and technology. She broadcasts and teaches creative writing. She has won a Whitbread Prize for a First Novel, a BAFTA Award for Best Drama, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the E. M. Forster Award and the St. Louis Literary Award, and the Lambda Literary Award twice. She has received an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to literature, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her novels have been translated to almost 20 languages.