Books Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

— Jeanette Winterson

I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel.

— Jeanette Winterson

I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.

— Jeanette Winterson

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

— Jeanette Winterson

In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.

— Jeanette Winterson

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

— Jeanette Winterson

Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!

— Jeanette Winterson

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

— Jeanette Winterson

“For some, perhaps for many, books are spare time. For me, the rest of life is spare time: I wake and sleep…

— Jeanette Winterson

Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Book collecting is an obsession, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who…

— Jeanette Winterson

I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.

— Jeanette Winterson

Seeing one's books on the shelf tells you so much about the way somebody has, over the years, put together their private…

— Jeanette Winterson

Each book is a different staging post on the writer's journey, and each book stands by itself, regardless of the writer's relationship…

— Jeanette Winterson

“A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say…

— Jeanette Winterson

“The library was quiet. It was busy but it was quiet and I thought it must be like this in a monastery…

— Jeanette Winterson

I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of…

— Jeanette Winterson

For me, the most painful thing is the thought of shelves without books. This is the problem with the digital thing. I…

— Jeanette Winterson

We're living in a homogenized culture where everything is the same, and books are not a homogenized culture. They are extremely varied,…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open - the only…

— Jeanette Winterson

We're in a strange situation where people either don't read at all or they read a lot. There's a huge gap in…

— Jeanette Winterson

Some people are happy when they are at the sea; I'm happy when I'm standing in front of a shelf of books.…

— Jeanette Winterson

We have a generation of kids who may never see a bookshelf or never see books in houses. What are they going…

— Jeanette Winterson

“What worries me is that a load of shite has been talked about digitisation as being the new Gutenberg, but the fact…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Wide reading is important. You don’t have to like it, but it’s important to grapple with things you don’t understand. I’ve been…

— Jeanette Winterson

And when I look at a history book and think of the imaginative effort it has taken to squeeze this oozing world…

— Jeanette Winterson

I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy…

— Jeanette Winterson

“When I had no books and had to learn everything I needed off by heart, and when I had to hide what…

— Jeanette Winterson

It was actually books that started to make those pockets of freedom, which I hadn't otherwise experienced. I do see them as…

— Jeanette Winterson

“The more I read, the more I felt connected across time to other lives and deeper sympathies. I felt less isolated. I…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Everyone’s talking about the death and disappearance of the book as a format and an object. I don’t think that will happen.…

— Jeanette Winterson

I learned capacity for self-reflection very early, finding it through interior monologues that books are so good at and that visual media…

— Jeanette Winterson

“I wasn’t reading poetry because my aim was to work my way through English Literature in Prose A–Z. But this was different.…

— Jeanette Winterson

“My mother was in charge of language. My father had never really learned to read - he could manage slowly, with his…

— Jeanette Winterson

You're never alone with a book, are you? It's a dialogue.

— Jeanette Winterson

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.

— Jeanette Winterson

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

— Jeanette Winterson

I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.

— Jeanette Winterson

Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury,…

— Jeanette Winterson