Jeanette Winterson Quotes

What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

It's important to tell your story. It's important to listen.

People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books.

Storytelling is the important thing.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

May books spread the world over!

I love how a story can help someone discuss something they otherwise would not.

People don't care about books. They care about ideas.

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.

Books and people are hard to compare.

Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.

Telling your story is transformative. For both the storyteller and their audience, a new bridge to understanding is created.

I enjoy stories that can spark a conversation.

The purpose of language is to communicate. That's the most basic definition of language. I have my own subjective experience going on in my head, and you have your own subjective experience going on in your head. The only way we can bridge that unbridgeable gap is through language.

I face no problem in communicating with the people of Orissa whom I meet everyday.

Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.

In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

Good dialogue is very important.

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

Language cares.

The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.

I just want people to hear me and my story.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.