My children were all made from paper and printer's ink.

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.

Forever is composed of nows.

I grew up with just my mum and sister, so I respect women a lot.

I want to be surprised and entertained by a movie, so that's what we're trying to do for the audience. Obviously, we also have to sell the film.

Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but they’re out in the parking lot, doing push-ups.”)

The stairway is not a thing of gleaming strands a radiant evanescence for angels' feet that only glance in their tread, and need not touch the stone.

The people who invented race, who grouped us together as "black," were inventing and categorizing their ability to do something vicious and wrong.

The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.

... the desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds.

I don't have a distaste for ambiguity, in fact, ambiguity is what I think life is all about.

We may have more control, but my point is that, strictly speaking, Rosneft is not a state company. I think that this is an obvious fact, as a foreign investor has a 19.7 percent stake in it.