Kate Morton Quotes

Reading is my greatest luxury.

Reading takes me to a different place than my everyday life. I usually get fully involved in what I'm reading about, so it's a great escape.

When I go on vacation, I take very few clothes and a whole lot of books. It's the most soothing thing in the world. Reading 'Moby-Dick' is like being in a time machine. I almost feel as excited as the first time I read it and I always find something new.

Entertainment is needed, and so I do think escapism is needed.

I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

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

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

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.

Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.

And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy.

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.

It is in games that many men discover their paradise.

People who read on holiday always have a better time because it's total escapism, both physically and mentally.

Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.

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.

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.

People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.

Every minute I'm on the set, it's play time for me. I feel like I'm on the beach!

People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful!

I really just love to read, period, whether it be books or magazines or the back of the cereal box. It's the one thing I can always count on to calm me down, take me away and inspire me, all at once.