Writer Quotes by 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

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

— Jeanette Winterson

I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel.

— Jeanette Winterson

“It is always a mistake to argue with a librarian.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Reading is a rendezvous with your soul.

— Jeanette Winterson

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

— Jeanette Winterson

“It could be that this record set before you now is a fiction.”

— Jeanette Winterson

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

— Jeanette Winterson

I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world.

— Jeanette Winterson

I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day,…

— 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

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

— Jeanette Winterson

“Dinginess is death to a writer. Filth, discomfort, hunger, cold, trauma and drama, don't matter a bit.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“I am an ambitious writer – I don’t see the point of being anything, no, not anything at all, if you have…

— Jeanette Winterson

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

— Jeanette Winterson

“The library was quiet. It was busy but it was quiet and I thought it must be like this in a monastery…

— Jeanette Winterson

I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because…

— Jeanette Winterson

“It took me a long time to realise that there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one…

— 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

Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is…

— Jeanette Winterson

“What they held was already inside me, and together we could get away. And standing over the smoldering pile of paper and…

— Jeanette Winterson

We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in…

— Jeanette Winterson

I think writing is a process that starts long before the writers are actually writers and probably goes on long afterward. It's…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Jeanette Winterson

Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer…

— Jeanette Winterson

“What worries me is that a load of shite has been talked about digitisation as being the new Gutenberg, but the fact…

— 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

“The librarian was explaining the benefits of the Dewey decimal system to her junior--benefits that extended to every area of life. It…

— Jeanette Winterson

Reading is where the wild things are.

— Jeanette Winterson

As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.

— Jeanette Winterson

“It was like living in a library, and that was where I had always been happiest.”

— Jeanette Winterson

I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.

— Jeanette Winterson

“A writer has no use for the clock. A writer lives in an infinity of days, time without end, ploughed under.”

— 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

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

— Jeanette Winterson