Language Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.

— Jeanette Winterson

Language is what stops the heart exploding.

— Jeanette Winterson

…only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world.

— Jeanette Winterson

Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.

— Jeanette Winterson

“I needed words because unhappy families are conspiracies of silence.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“I had lines inside me-a string of guiding lights. I had language.”

— Jeanette Winterson

the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.

— Jeanette Winterson

“The words come at my call but who calls whom?”

— Jeanette Winterson

“The woman tried to teach Winnet her language, and Winnet learned the words but not the language.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“I was only good at one thing: words. I had read more, much more, than anybody else, and I knew how words…

— Jeanette Winterson

“He needed some sort of membrane between himself and experience, which, for him, became language.(Jeanette Winterson on T.S.Eliot)”

— Jeanette Winterson

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

— Jeanette Winterson

Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of…

— 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

I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are…

— Jeanette Winterson

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Words kept salted when they cannot be found fresh. Words kept fresh when they cannot be found clean. The words go deeper,…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Turn down the daily noise and at first there is the relief of silence. And then, very quietly, as quiet as light,…

— Jeanette Winterson

“I put the words into a flask and flung them out to sea. Flung them far out from me, made through myself,…

— Jeanette Winterson

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way…

— Jeanette Winterson

Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us,…

— Jeanette Winterson

“In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at until you understood them, they couldn't change halfway through…

— Jeanette Winterson

I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the…

— Jeanette Winterson

The best language is always found in books because it's considered. It's a high language. Sometimes, it is complex and difficult. It's…

— Jeanette Winterson

Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few…

— Jeanette Winterson

Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and…

— Jeanette Winterson

Earth is ancient now, but all knowledge is stored up in her. She keeps a record of everything that has happened since…

— 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

I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal…

— Jeanette Winterson

I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Eating words and listening to them rumbling in the gut is how a writer learns the acid and alkali of language. It…

— Jeanette Winterson

The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division…

— Jeanette Winterson

“To say exactly what one means, even to one's own private satisfaction, is difficult. To say exactly what one means and to…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you…

— Jeanette Winterson

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

— Jeanette Winterson

Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.

— Jeanette Winterson

“When I see a word held hostage to manhood I have to rescue it. Sweet trembling word, locked in a tower, tired…

— Jeanette Winterson

That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding…

— Jeanette Winterson

You were in my arms for the first time, and you said my name, 'Tristan.' I answered you: 'Isolde.' Isolde. The world…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Can I? Can I speak my mind or am I dumb inside a borrowed language, captive of bastard thoughts? What of me…

— Jeanette Winterson