I'm perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It's a lot safer.

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.

Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them, " I said."Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

In the minds of angelswe find comfortin the eye's of a smilewe find peace..

May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.

I'm oftentimes called away from my family... it's rather hard for me to be away from them. We're very close.

I may be uninspiring, but I'll be damned if I'm alien.

We are not in the coffee business serving people, we are in the people business serving coffee.

If there is some aspect of creation you find you do not enjoy, bless it and simply change it. Choose again. Call forth a new reality. Think a new thought. Say a new word. Do a new thing.

Is there a tumor in your humor?

A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee.