Book Quote by Jeanette Winterson Download Open image “I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.” — Jeanette Winterson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Inspirational Left Love Writing
I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
All books are in safe hands with me. They're my children, my inky children, and I look after them well. I keep the sunlight… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of… — Edna O'Brien 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 – that… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I'd read two or three books at the same time, so I wouldn't finish… — Marc Acito Copy Share Image
I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace. — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
When we got around to books, I was finally set, as our minister would say, on solid ground. I gorged on books. I sneaked… — Lorene Cary Copy Share Image
I don't keep my books around... they would embarrass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have… — Ludwig Bemelmans 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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
