Books, for me, are a home. Books donโt make a home โ they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.
Jeanette WintersonKnow thyself,โ said Socrates. Know thyself,โ said Sappho, โand make sure that the Church never finds out.
Jeanette WintersonI say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. LIke genius she is ignorant of what she does.
Jeanette Winterson