Jeanette Winterson Quotes

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

I love the freedom to do whatever I want with style and not be put into a box.

I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.

To be beyond any existing classification has always pleased me.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

I admire anyone that follows the road less travelled.

Never follow the crowd.

I think it's good to do your own thing and want to be different, and not look like everyone else.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.

There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.

Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.

Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.

I like being unconventional.

I don't like the idea of fitting into a mould so as to conform. What I like is the danger, the difference - being unpredictable.

I'd rather dance in a corner than dance in a circle.

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

I got into figure skating for the art of it, as well as the sport, and how much I love it. And, you know, I do everything that I want. I march to my own drummer. Sometimes people have an issue with that, and I can't control it.

I always wanted to beat my own path.

I don't want to emulate anyone.

We went and made our own scene and did our own thing.

Following the West is not surrendering. Following the West, the best of the West, is following originality.

Do what you want to do, and don't worry if it's a little odd or doesn't fit the market.

I kind of go to the beat of my own drum.