Nobody loves only once.

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.

The better you look, the more you see.

To leap over the wall of self, to look through another’s eyes--this is valuable experience, which literature offers.

Your former friend Luke " Poseidon corrected. "He once promised things like that. He was Hermes's pride and joy. Just bear that in mind Percy. Even the bravest can fall.

One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

Does anybody think these people were just sitting around drinking tea?

I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.

Americans threw away their communities in order to save a few dollars on hair dryers and plastic food storage tubs, never stopping to reflect on what they were destroying.

The first casualty in every war is truth.

Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.