"Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book……" — Jeanette Winterson

"Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!"

— Jeanette Winterson

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419 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson has 419 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

To create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement.
Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there…
After every ''victory'' you have more enemies.
...to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great…
Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.
There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories…
The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.
You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved.
The secret of the world is this: the world is entirely circular and you will go round and round endlessly,…
Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we…
It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of…

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More Book Quotes

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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