Jeanette Winterson

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.