Hey, don't take this the wrong way, but don't come back, ok?

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.

Life is short. Focus on what really matters most

I take showers to think.

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.

There would be a trial and there would be a judge. The only problem was, there could only be one sentence.

I believe the second half of one's life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it.

There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.

If it respected religion, Israel would have transferred these synagogues back to its territory.

So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln/Douglas style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine.

Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.

In my proper character, an officer of the United States army.