Jeanette Winterson Quotes About Libraries

Quotes about: Libraries

• In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, People, Library

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.72, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Library, Titles, Lists

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Seeing one's books on the shelf tells you so much about the way somebody has, over the years, put together their private library, which is a reflection of their minds and their selves.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, Reflection, Self

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

• When we say we can pull resources away from libraries, from culture, from those parts of the education system that are not about utility, what we are really saying is that the life of the mind is unnecessary.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mind, Library, Culture

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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