I love to read, I love to watch movies, and I love to be with my children.

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.

Her beauty is laced in her strength and interwoven through her flaws. She embodies perfection.

To have loved, to have lost and to be so empty when love is forgotten and not shared is an empty heart that's always whispering "fill me"~bns

My dad was an English professor.

I like groaning. That means that you're not pandering to their already settled prejudices.

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

In a weird way, it's much easier, when I don't have to worry about being a writer, to just worry about the director job, which is really fun.

Krishna is God, so He's absolute: His name, His form, prasadam, it's all Him.

I want to be buried in a Valentino gown and I want Harry Winston to make me a toe tag.

Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.

I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.