Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.
Jeanette Winterson
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- I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
- Art saved me it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
- If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
- I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
- I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.