Jeanette Winterson Quotes

I want a painting to be difficult to do. The more obstacles, obstructions, problems - if they don't overwhelm - the better. I would like to feel that I am involved at any stage of the painting with all its moments, not just this 'now' moment where a superficial grace is so available.

I know how demanding the process of creation is.

In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.

Nothing has ever come easy for me.

If you write an original, it's like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, it's like the oil well's on fire, and they bring you in to put the fire out and get it working again - or something like that.

Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls.

There were times I didn't think we would ever make it, even when we were cranking two out a year.

I love stories. I just enjoy telling stories and watching what these characters do - although writing continues to be just as hard as it always was.

Life is supposed to get tough.

You must bring great resolve to your work. It's not all a bed of roses.

Our biggest challenge is always story. The story is the ultimate thing you try to tackle.

Making movies is really hard. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

I enjoy singing the songs a certain way, but I don't even know how the writing even began. To me, it's work that is kind of invisible; it's a weird kind of work to have because you're not working, but it's not not work. Formulating your thoughts and making a melody that's catchy enough for people to listen to what you're saying is really hard!

Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?

I believe in creative work.

Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.

Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.

The best way out is always through.

Producing is the hardest of the three because there is almost no closure. Every time you solve a problem, another one pops up. Directing is second, and acting is the most fun.

To actually put the time and energy into an album that would be better than Pull would be a hell of a lot of work, because I took that band really seriously, way more seriously than people took us. If you go back and listen to the records, you can hear it.

The path to glory is rough, and many gloomy hours obscure it.

My films are always a struggle to make and will remain so.

There's always going to be adversity.

I wanted to complete 'Maryada Ramanna' in a short time, but it took me almost a year, and now 'Eega' took double the time, but in the end, it was worth it.

Nothing in my life has really ever been easy. I've always been someone who did it uphill.