My son always says I like very weird music.

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.

If the music is amazing, you can get away with anything.

We're all stories in the end.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do something, when all they need is one reason why they can.

The person who feels secure, loved, safe and happy inside will have a secure, safe and happy life. Your inner integrity will be matched by those around you.

To many fame comes too late.

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.

To write a song you must have an imagination, to have an imagination you must be free.

I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.

Sometimes the only way is jumping; hope you’re not afraid of heights.

I'm drinking doubles now that you're running around single again.