Quotes by Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

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Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair — Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
To say exactly what one means, even to one's own private satisfaction, is difficult. To say exactly what one means and t — Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
Eating words and listening to them rumbling in the gut is how a writer learns the acid and alkali of language. It is a p — Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
A writer has no use for the clock. A writer lives in an infinity of days, time without end, ploughed under. — Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells. ... The success of later Shakespeare is the success of spells, — Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery