" This is one reason why it remains anarchic even at its most canonised. The modern world is Time’s fool. Art is master of itself. But, you may say, who has long hours for a book these days? The answer must be whoever wants to read one. A reader must pick up a book, then the reader must pick up the beat. At that moment the clock is stopped. Now I am getting his beat into my brain (the rhythm is the main thing in writing). "

― Jeanette Winterson , Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery