Many [book] even lay flat in the floor open. Their spines upward. Elinor couldn't bear to look! Didn't the monster know that was the way to break a book's neck?

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.

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

If the voice was meant to be silent we wouldn't have ears for listening.

Blessed are those who encounter a mystery in their lives because they obtain a big opportunity to live the great joy of solving puzzles!

I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.

Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.

Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

Sculptured figures which appear in motion, will, in their standing position, actually look as if they were falling forward.

The Gatsby that I remember reading when I was 15 years old in junior high school was far different from the Gatsby I read as an adult.

It's hard to be vulnerable in front of the whole world because everyone's a critic.

I was annoyed and I was crying [her honest reaction to losing a tennis match at the US Open]