I don't like to eat the same dish every day, so I read very different things.

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.

Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?

The ordinary build houses when they have bricks

On my view there is no net benefit to coming into existence and thus coming into existence is never worth its costs.

A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

The gash in its throat was shocking, but not pathetic.

A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.

Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.