My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.

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.

A writer’s brain is like a magician’s hat. If you’re going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first

The thing I love about reporting is being able to blend in with any group, whether that's neo-Nazis or pedophiles.

An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us.

I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.

Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.

Just because you see an iceberg does not mean that there isn't global warming.

The rock sitting on the shelf has potential because it can fall - it's the same way with the Internet. It has this potential. It's not really doing it yet, but it's about to.

By God, we will make the fire eat up half of Isreal if it tries to do anything against Iraq.