Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world - any world. The very best of all.

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.

Being dynamic doesn’t necessarily mean you live an effective life

For who can be ashamed to lose to such beauty?

There's a death sentence for your Robin of Locksley.

When everything is worth money, then money is worth nothing.

How do we attack important problems? Pose the right question.

For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift.

The Destroyer has arrived and you are he.

Keynes did not teach us how to perform the miracle of turning a stone into bread, but the not at all miraculous procedure of eating the seed corn.

I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.

You need to be empathetic in your own personal life and we help our neighbors and our friends out who are struggling in our neighborhoods. But we don't make bad decisions based on empathy.