Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

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.

When you can’t reach the standards of another’s heart you must ask yourself, "What value do I put on my soul that I would subject myself to such rejection?

Do not deprive the world the gift of your products.

I won't do one-sided if my life depended on it.

Truthful hyperbole’ is a contradiction in terms. It’s a way of saying, ‘It’s a lie, but who cares?’

...the facts of economic life cannot be comprehensively described in terms of statistics.

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

Every city and country just has a different reason for wanting to host the [Olympic] games.

All these feelings need to be felt. We need to stomp and storm; to sob and cry; to perspire and tremble.

I am proud of the fact that my wealth is completely transparent.

Sometimes, in the deepest moments, there are no words. There is only food.