Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's not progress to take books off shelves. If one more person says this [ebooks] is the new Gutenberg, I will probably… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
At bed-time I went into my room and put out the light. I didn't get undressed. I lay on my bed and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Great control and great discipline are necessary when you reach your own editing stage of the book, but in the early stages… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Book collecting is an obsession, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The more I read the more I fought against the assumption that literature is for the minority - of a particular education… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then the books themselves inform… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“He loves books,’ said Perdita. ‘Yeah. He does. When you’ve finished a book you can put it away and it doesn’t ask… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
And when I look at a history book and think of the imaginative effort it has taken to squeeze this oozing world… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Knowing that books are something that is hidden, that almost has that alchemical quality to it. There is a secret society in… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When we learn to read, it's a real product of civilization and a civilized society. It affects your brain. It affects the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS) — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“After nine nights must come ten and every desperate meeting only leaves you desperate for another. There is never enough to eat, never enough… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Yes. Just pass me my leg will you? It's on top of the wardrobe where he threw it, and I think my right arm… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse -- there is more than… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression. If what I feel is not precise than how should… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What would it have meant to be happy? What would it have meant if things had been bright, clear, good between us? — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Mrs Ratlow was a widow, and she was head of English, but she still did all the cooking and cleaning for her two sons,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous. The so-called uselessness of art is a clue to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Happy Valentines Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don’t give up.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
