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.

Music, literature with poetry makes a perfect paradise.

Your on the planet too. Why should James Bond have all the action, fun, money, and resort hotel living.

I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.

The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.

History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.

Every star has that certain something that stands out and compels us to notice them.

Love should have no fear. It should have just free love, without any fear, without any aggression; enjoy that pure love.

Randalf the Wise indeed!I've worn wiser pairs of underpants!

All girls over age 14 remove pubic hair. The only touching is to remove hair. That's grim.

The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.