Caroline Gordon Quotes

Every book that you pick up takes you a step away from your real world, but if you read a book about magic, it takes you an extra two steps.

I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.

For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

To be transported into another world is my very favourite part of reading.

I get transported when I read books.

Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

Really believing in "once upon a time". Believing that it will draw you in, take you with me to a place you've never been before.

With my writing, I can still play inside an enchanted castle or live inside an old fort. I can run from ghosts or ride dolphins any day of the week.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.

My interest in fantasy began pretty much when I started to read.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

Ultimately, in my mind, that's what I'm trying to do with my fiction; I'm trying to transport my reader into a different world.

I would love to meet J.K. Rowling and tell her how much I admire her writing and am amazed by her imagination. I read every 'Harry Potter' book as it came out and looked forward to each new one. I am rereading them now with my kids and enjoying them every bit as much. She made me look at jelly beans in a whole new way.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything.

Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

The magic of Disneyland, walking through the tunnel underneath the train station to Main Street, it just transports you to other places and other times.

I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi.

When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.

Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.