A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.

There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.

The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.

believe me. Sometimes when life looks to be at its grimmest, there's a light hidden at the heart of things. Clive Barker, Abarat

Second, there are so many magical places in books that you cant go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.

Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.

I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.

Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?

If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.

This feeling of being "home at last" corresponds to my idea about the city, and idea shaped by books, movies, and plays, an idea of infinite possibility.

By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others.

I don't understand what modern clothes are about at all.

People who succeed speak well of themselves to themselves.

Homosexuality is death, and I choose life.

If love doesn't make a fool of us, what will?

We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake." "A habit.

Everybody's not going to like jazz, let's just be honest about it. Everybody doesn't like everything. There's a disconnect in generations and some people just aren't going to feel that music.

If you're that depressed, reach out to someone. And remember, suicide is a permanent solution, to a temporary problem.

I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-" "It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.