Jeanette Winterson Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Home, Literature, Might

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.94, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Change, Crush, Book

  "Redemption songs" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

• I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Believe, Book, Communication

• I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Art, Luxury, People

  "Redemption songs". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

• I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language – and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers – a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn’t a hiding place. It is a finding place.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Powerful, Stupid, School

• What you risk reveals what you value.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Risk, Literature, Take A Chance

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.43, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Different, Goes On, Literature

• In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, Journey, Emotional

• That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Powerful, Literature, Language

• What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Literature, Invisible, Well Being

• Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Rumor, Literature, Legends

• I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Thinking, Literature, Private Life

  "Redemption songs". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

• I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Literature, Causes, Trouble

  "Redemption songs". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

• I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Women, Thinking, Literature

  "Redemption songs" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

• You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Heart, Giving, Asking

• Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Confidence, Reality, Usual

  "Redemption songs" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

• I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, Cat, Garden

• I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Work, Stressful Situations, People

• I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Stupid, Thinking, Would Be

• There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Writing, Self, Literature

  "Redemption songs" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

• Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Cosmos, Literature, Want

• I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

  Jeanette Winterson

  School, Mind, Literature

  "Redemption songs" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

• Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Heart, Perfect, Holy Grail

• Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is both journey and surprise. And as everyone knows, even the past is altered, depending on, not the facts, but the interpretation.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Past, Journey, Stories

• My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Character, Literature, Spotlight

  "Redemption songs". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

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