In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?

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.

There is no eleventh hour with Cosmic Ordering, only the golden hour.

Take one minute every day and think hard about your life. You will always change for the best.

You can't invent Google, Facebook or the iPod unless you've mastered the basics, are willing to put in long hours and can pick yourself up from the floor when life knocks you down the first 10 times.

Cunning proceeds from want of capacity.

It was supposed to be gross, and now it's gorgeous.

Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself.

There are many more secrets in the world that are waiting to be found. The question of how many secrets exist in our world is roughly equivalent to how many startups people should start.

A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.

The mother of invention in music is necessity, not Frank Zappa!

If a man ain't nothin' else, then he's an artist. It's the only thing he can claim to be that nobody can prove he ain't.