Jeanette Winterson Quotes

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.

There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.

Basbanes makes you love books.

Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!

Wat a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever.

She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves jammed with books tables crowded with them. She saw them not only as knowledge entertainment comfort even sanity but as a kind of artful decoration.

Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live." Yet of all the many things in which we recognize some universal comfort...reading seems to be the one in which the comfort is most undersung.

I get a warm feeling among my books.

A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.

Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pass a waking hour without a book before me.

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

I like that you can open up any one of my books anywhere and immediately be lost. I just love them so much.

My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time.

In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their "large loves and heavenly charities.

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing done at home.

I even love the smell of books.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

My greatest fear is being somewhere without a book.

I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.