My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story,” said Dustfinger at last.

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.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

I am far more fearful of the USA government than I am of North Korea.

How could we be miserable, when there is music?

I forgot what I was going to think.

Good intentions are good netiquette. A conscious effort to be nice others on the internet. NetworkEtiquette.net

Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work.

Over a long period of time, living as if you were someone else is no fun.

Like Toy Story, the joke is all about exploring the secret world of these various everyday objects.

Oh yeah, our first tour in Europe they wouldn't give me the time off from work.

It is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.