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Book Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.
- If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
- My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.
- I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.
- Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes you…
- I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than…
- I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.
- I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
- Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
- Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
- I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.
- Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is…
- And when I look at a history book and think of the imaginative effort it has taken to squeeze this oozing world between two boards…
- Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)
- Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!
- Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete…
- Don’t you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under the bed and put away the letter you were…
- I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.
- Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You…
- Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I…
- Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.
- The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is how we all…
- I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in…
- Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a…
- Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do…
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