I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy. Jeanette Winterson More Quotes by Jeanette Winterson More Quotes From Jeanette Winterson …I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt. Jeanette Winterson sea-voyage voyages sea The only selfish life is a timid one. Jeanette Winterson selfish life-is Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be. Jeanette Winterson splits heart two Don’t lie. You know you like to view but not to buy. I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. And that is the stubbornness in me: I do not want to be someone’s little home. Jeanette Winterson views home lying It's not progress to take books off shelves. If one more person says this [ebooks] is the new Gutenberg, I will probably commit homicide, because the whole point of Gutenberg was to put books on shelves, not to take them off. Jeanette Winterson gutenberg progress book We have a generation of kids who may never see a bookshelf or never see books in houses. What are they going to think about books? How will books become meaningful in their lives except as yet another form of digitalized content? A book is not just digitalized content. Jeanette Winterson meaningful kids book Knowing that books are something that is hidden, that almost has that alchemical quality to it. There is a secret society in here, and if you belong to it, you'll be able to transform your lead into gold. I have that rather magical sense about books - that they do, somehow, have special powers. Jeanette Winterson knowing secret book For me, the most painful thing is the thought of shelves without books. This is the problem with the digital thing. I do not want to see it on electronic. I do not want to see all of those indices on Kindle. I don't want this physical object to disappear, because when it's there and it's present, it's continually suggesting new relationships in a way that an electronic index couldn't. Jeanette Winterson new-relationship want book I am getting much more political as I get older. It's the duty of any writer, in particular, not to stand back from the world. Jeanette Winterson duty political world The best language is always found in books because it's considered. It's a high language. Sometimes, it is complex and difficult. It's empowering and offers a way to speak about yourself that you don't have if all you are doing is reading the newspaper and watching TV. Jeanette Winterson empowering reading book The people who decided in their wisdom that we're all going to go over to ebooks, they are not readers. These are technical people. These are people who think that somehow this is progress. It isn't. It's regressive. Jeanette Winterson progress people thinking I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me to write at all. Jeanette Winterson writing years thinking A character has a distinctive voice - you should be able to hear them in your head and conduct a conversation with them while you're out walking. If the answers surprise you, you know it's the character speaking and not you. Jeanette Winterson able voice character I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as part of the human condition and part of the continuum of writers. Jeanette Winterson standing-out figures kind I want to get to the end and feel that I've done all I could, given the limitations and given the opportunities. Jeanette Winterson done want opportunity I care about doing the work as best as I can do, and that it should go on reaching people. It's not about fame and it's not about me. It's about creating something that might allow someone else to create something. Jeanette Winterson creating goes-on people I know I've had an unusual beginning and a colourful life, but that wouldn't matter if I couldn't make it speak to other people. Jeanette Winterson speak matter people When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become our private worlds that we return to. Jeanette Winterson pieces way world There's something about the authenticity rather than the autobiography that makes my story and my pain move across and become your story and your pain. Jeanette Winterson pain stories moving Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it's not arrogant. Jeanette Winterson arrogant self writing
