Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.

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.

You’re demanding fidelity, and I’ll give you that. But if I intended to be celibate, I would’ve become a priest.

For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.

As long as you're being a copycat, you will never be the best copycat.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

Communicate. Listen to your customers, associates and competitors.

Ahimsa is the strongest force known.

More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.

They want liberalization! I'll give them liberalization. I'll loosen the screws until the Americans beg me to tighten them again.

Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.

In this way, through experience they will be formed adequately, will be encouraged, and will be capable of rendering service to God.