I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt like taking a pair of scissors and cutting it up.

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.

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

Even with all the Lace, you can't be an Ace without God's grace.- RVM

Go lovingly into each moment and experience your infinite being as you truly are. Feel, learn, play!

Achilles’ eyes lift. They are bloodshot and dead. “I wish he had let you all die.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.

For me music is totally freeing, and it's its' own language too. You follow it, in a way.

I didn't know what I knew. I wasn't aware of what I knew.

You can only be a control freak when you have weak people around you.

You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.