As people get older they have these rigid patterns that they impose on themselves, and it kills them. They become dull, they become dead to new experience, they become afraid, biased, and bigoted. It's really simply to do with refusing new experience.
Jeanette WintersonAcademics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
Jeanette WintersonThe 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 WintersonEvery moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.
Jeanette Winterson