Book Quote by Kate Morton

“They not only offered the possibility of an imaginary escape from a life she found unsatisfying; they also had a meaning for her as…

— Milan Kundera

“She imagined the reading she did now as like climbing inside one of those deep old beds she'd seen in a museum, with a…

— Tessa Hadley

“Trapped, cutting herself against the jagged edges of her emotions, she was a prisoner of her own spirit.”

— Leigh Hershkovich

She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way…

— James M. Cain

She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write,…

— Frederick Weisel

There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author's…

— Karen Joy Fowler

She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong for love…

— Anna Godbersen

He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her…

— Anais Nin

“While dragging herself up she had to hang onto the rail. Her twisted progress was that of a cripple. Once on the open deck…

— Vladimir Nabokov

She carried a knife inside of herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time…

— Scott Westerfeld

“With what characters she had filled this lost stage of emptiness! It was here that she would see the people of her imagination, the…

— Mervyn Peake