Dinginess is death to a writer. Filth, discomfort, hunger, cold, trauma and drama, don't matter a bit. Author: Jeanette Winterson Copy Quote More from Jeanette Winterson “I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about hap…” “They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with t…” “Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality …” “Every new beginning prompts a return.”