Kate Morton Quotes

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

When I'm in the middle of a book it can go up from there. When you're putting in those hours, the real world kind of fades and the world you're creating becomes almost more real to you than the outside world.

Books were my passion and my escape from madness.

Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.

A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while.

I have always loved reading. Ever since I was a young girl I had a book by my bed and would get lost in the world of make believe.

I just hope that readers and publishers continue to appreciate good writing and good storytelling in all their various forms. And I hope that people continue to read books, even though we have so many other options for entertainment.

I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.

This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.

When she wanted to escape her life, she read books

There is no frigate like a book

In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real life. And I love my real people the most.

A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death.

Literature is my Utopia

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.

Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

There's still nothing like a book to really make you feel like you've disappeared into a world.

I spent my life in the library reading books.

I've always got a book in my hands, a novel in my hands. The more I get into film, the more paranoid I get that I'm going to stop seeing things.

The writers of books are companions in one's life and, as such, are often more interesting than other companions.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

Literature has become my life.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

I like short stories.

Both types of books - fiction and nonfiction - are a search for story. As a writer and a reader, there's nothing I crave more than a good story!