{"id":42042,"date":"2024-03-25T06:30:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T17:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=42042"},"modified":"2024-03-24T16:38:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T03:38:21","slug":"a-writing-quote-to-start-the-week-from-jeanette-winterson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2024\/03\/25\/a-writing-quote-to-start-the-week-from-jeanette-winterson\/","title":{"rendered":"A Writing Quote To Start The Week — from Jeanette Winterson"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I think every work of art is an act of faith…It is a message in a bottle, a shout in the dark. It’s saying, ‘I’m here and I believe that you are somewhere and that you will answer if necessary across time, not necessarily in my lifetime.’<\/em>” – Jeanette Winterson
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I spotted this quote from UK author, Jeanette Winterson<\/span>, last week and really liked it, hence sharing it with you today.<\/p>\n

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I believe the reasons I liked (and like!) it, include the notion of every work as both an act of faith and shout, or leap, in the dark — chiefly of not-knowing whether the idea that’s a fire in your mind and spirit will ignite a similar flame in others once completed. I also like the idea that the ‘answer’ may happen beyond one’s own lifetime and generation (e.g. van Gogh), hence doubling back on the ‘act of faith…shout in the dark’<\/em> premise.<\/p>\n

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If you want to discover more about Jeanette Winterson<\/span>, her website is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I think every work of art is an act of faith…It is a message in a bottle, a shout in the dark. It’s saying, ‘I’m here and I believe that you are somewhere and that you will answer if necessary across time, not necessarily in my lifetime.’” – Jeanette Winterson I spotted this quote from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42047,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42042\/revisions\/42047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}