And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.

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.

I could get through this. I would be strong because I was so close to achieving my dream of having my kids together.

To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires thinking.

If you're a good improviser, you improvise well enough that people think that you're doing a sketch.

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

Money is central to our lives. Yet money is not of central importance. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the lasting values that make life worth living.

A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.

There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.

I think that as the guardian of justice elected by the people it's our duty to use whatever forms of force, police, army, to make sure that at least the freedom of choice is preserved.

Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it.

I wanted to make photographs in which everything was so complex and detailed that you could look at them forever and never see everything.