Reading Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

“Let me read to you,” said Roger Nowell. “It is a night for reading.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Reading is a rendezvous with your soul.

— Jeanette Winterson

Reading is where the wild things are.

— Jeanette Winterson

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

— Jeanette Winterson

In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with…

— 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

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

— 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

“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

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

— 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

Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse -- there is…

— 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

I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather…

— 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

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

— Jeanette Winterson

reading is not a passive act. It's a creative act. It's a relationship between the writer and a person the writer will…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the…

— 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

“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

Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the…

— Jeanette Winterson

Yes, we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind…

— Jeanette Winterson

Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places…

— 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

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

Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely…

— Jeanette Winterson