I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside.

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.

I like to play music and sleep. But most of all, I love to work... I don't really play sports, so I like to spend my time playing guitar or piano.

Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.

It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.

There are many Broadway songs that apply to moments on 'Mad Men,' and I sing them on set all the time.

This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart.

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

The Lord Jesus Christ would have the whole world to know, that though He pardons sin, He will not protect it.

My Rama, the Rama of our prayers, is not the historical Rama, the son of Dasharatha, the king of Ayodhya.

Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.

I can't promise results, but I can promise a common destiny.