Jeanette Winterson Quote

When we tell a story we exercise control, but in such a way as to leave a gap, an opening. It is a version, but never the final one.When we write we offer the silence as much as the story. Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.

Jeanette Winterson

When we tell a story we exercise control, but in such a way as to leave a gap, an opening. It is a version, but never the final one.When we write we offer the silence as much as the story. Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.

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About Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson (born 27 August 1959) is an English author.
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.