Believe, believe, believe

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.

Starting something can be easy, it is finishing it that is the highest hurdle.

When you're rich, 'crazy' is just 'eccentric'.

I always want to be the best at what I do. That doesn't mean compared to other people, but just in what you do.

The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.

My early reviews were so bad that I decided I didn't want to read them again.

We like to look out on the world and see ourselves, so we have many, many novels, memoirs, and short stories in Iraq that are largely about Americans in Iraq, doing what Americans do.

I feel a great sense of pride and joy knowing that I played a part in bringing into the world more beauty and excitement.

It is better to do nothing Than to do what is wrong. For whatever you do, you do to yourself.

We're stronger than we realize.

Sometimes you have to bring back only the steering wheel so the car owner will know that you're giving it all you have.