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Reading Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
- 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…
- Reading is where the wild things are.
- 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…
- I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than…
- Yes, we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside…
- I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy one. There is…
- 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…
- Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the…
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