One of the things the story teaches us is this: Read yourself as a fiction as well as a fact. […] Learning to read yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is liberating — it is the difference between energy and mass.
Author: Jeanette Winterson | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Personal Improvement
Reading is an adventure. Adventures are about the unknown. When I started to read seriously I was excited and comforted all at the same time. Literature is a mix of unfamiliarity and recognition. The situation can take us anywhere — across time and space, the globe, through the lives of people who can never be like us — into the heart of anguish we have … [ Read more ]
Author: Jeanette Winterson | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Literature | Arts, Reading | Writing
Write what you know is reasonable advice. Read what you don’t know is better advice.
Author: Jeanette Winterson | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Literature | Arts, Reading | Writing