“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
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through.” — 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 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 Copy Share Image
For me, the most painful thing is the thought of shelves without books. This is the problem with the digital thing. I… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I love the apparent quiet of reading a book. You sit there; you're not really moving. It looks very solitary. It looks… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you… — 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
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
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens. — 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
“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
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
“Didn't they like you? Didn't they, like you, need a heart that was a book with no last page? Turn the leaves.” — 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
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
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
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
“We did photograph albums, best dresses, favourite novels, and once someone's own novel. It was about a week in a telephone box… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Don’t you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under the bed and put away the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I read in a book that the stars can take you anywhere. I’ve never wanted to be an astronaut because of the… — 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
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
“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
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