Books Quote by Jeanette Winterson Download Open image “My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.” — Jeanette Winterson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Connected
Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply a flash… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every word is part of a picture, Every sentence is a picture. All you have to do is link them together. — Rodman Philbrick Copy Share Image
An image often propels the novel, gets it started. For me, it's an image that has a lot of emotion connected to it. — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a book, generally I start with the mood and setting, along with a couple of specific imagesthings that have come into… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
“Start with a word. A word leads to a sentence, which leads to a paragraph, which leads to a chapter, which leads to a… — Mark Pettinger Copy Share Image
I had to keep the text pretty spare compared to what I would typically do in a picture book. My picture books have a… — Laurie Keller Copy Share Image
What excites me about picture books is the gap between pictures and words. Sometimes the pictures can tell a slightly different story or tell… — Anthony Browne 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
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker 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
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb 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
