I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs. - Elinor

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 wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.

God your love is great.

Death actually never kills you, time does

The pygmies, for example, or the Mindoro of the Philippines, do not want equal rights – they just want to be left alone.

As a chef and father, it kills me that children are fed processed foods, fast food clones, foods loaded with preservatives and high-fructose corn syrup.

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.

No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.

It's about finding unique, one-of-a-kind films that I would want to see myself. I think Party Monster is one of those.

The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart-see, they bark at me.