Book Quotes by 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

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

— Jeanette Winterson

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

— Jeanette Winterson

Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)

— Jeanette Winterson

I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.

— Jeanette Winterson

“A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through.”

— Jeanette Winterson

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

— 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

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then. If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us, and it…

— 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

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

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

The Humans is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling, thrilling, puzzling, believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the…

— Jeanette Winterson

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

The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is…

— Jeanette Winterson

There's a whole generation growing up thinking you shouldn't seek knowledge for its own sake, and that theatre and art and books…

— 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

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

— 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

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

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

— Jeanette Winterson

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

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

— 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

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

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

— Jeanette Winterson

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

— Jeanette Winterson

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

— Jeanette Winterson

I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule,…

— Jeanette Winterson

“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

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his…

— Jeanette Winterson

Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you…

— Jeanette Winterson

“A book is a magic carpet that flies you off somewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through.…

— Jeanette Winterson

Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books…

— Jeanette Winterson

“The more I read the more I fought against the assumption that literature is for the minority - of a particular education…

— Jeanette Winterson