Jeanette Winterson at the Sydney Book Festival

Full article here."It's like a wake-up call, that's all. You're not telling people anything they don't know - you're telling them something that gets buried under the accumulating emergencies of modern life," she said."The creative life is a central part of life and not a luxury and not an extra and not a peripheral part of life. It's about our imaginative response ourselves, and to the world."