Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.


Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (ed. 2012)

Jeanette Winterson Quotes

Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate ...

Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate ...

Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate ...

Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate ...