Kate Morton Quotes

I've never really socialized; I've always been anti-social and preferred to be at home. I was never, even my late teens and early twenties, into clubs and parties and stuff like that.

I felt I was owned by possessions.

Nothing personal; I just don't have people over.

I'm a somewhat isolated person in my own way, or I move along a little trail, I go this place, I go that place. It's not like I'm varying my exposure.

I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.

I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

Technology, we find, amplifies behaviours. If you want to be anti-social, technology allows you to be. And vice versa.

The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.

I'm not very good at talking and being with people and being gregarious and outgoing. I love people, but I have great difficulty doing it.

I don't want to be rude, but I'm not that social. When I say, 'I never go out,' I mean, 'I never go out.'

No one wants to be the kid who allies with the weird kid.

If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.

I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it.

I read books more than I go out. As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits. I will choose a night with Somerset Maugham or Russell Banks over a crowded bar any day.

A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy.

Wealth makes many friends; but the poor is deserted by his neighbor.

The current public aspiration seems to be: Get what you can. Can what you get. Sit on the can behind gated fences.

I'm quite a loner. I realized that I'm very introverted, and I get energy by being alone instead of being with other people.

I think I am very anti-social.

When I look at it, I don't really like people, and socializing is really awful. Outside of my family, friends, and those connected to my job, I don't think I actively want to meet anyone. I've always lived in the country, after all.

Social media is making us more anti-social.

Sometimes I go totally anti-social.

If I would have not been in films, I would have become an anti-social element.

You don't need to go far to see the hatred and abuse that happens online. Even using social media is anti-social because people are always on their phones.

Normally seven minutes of another person's company was enough to give her a headache so she set things up to live as a recluse. She was perfectly content as long as people left her in peace. Unfortunately society was not very smart or understanding.