I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

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's markers are never just for one moment in time. Every event holds a key. Each builds upon the other and becomes an indicator towards a higher purpose.

Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize.

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

We can change our whole life and the attitude of people around us simply by changing ourselves.

The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us.

As a kid, I can't remember having anything to play with except a loose tooth. And that wasn't mine. It was my brother's.

Growing up as a city kid is a joyous time!