Book Quote by Jeanette Winterson Download Open image “the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.” — Jeanette Winterson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Bounds Goes on Language
It is ripe and right time to show that words have actual power lests power becomes so dominent that it shows there are no… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
One has to work very carefully with what is in between the words. What is not said. Which is measure, which is rhythm and… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“You string some letters together, and you make a word. You string some words together, and you make a sentence, then a paragraph, then… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
“The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
A piece of writing takes exactly as long as it needs to be done right. — Norma Fox Mazer 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
