There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
From Jeanette Winterson
The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.
Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.
Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.
My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.
My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.
My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.
Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.
London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.
Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.
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