Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper.

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.

You cannot reach success only by working hard, you also need to be working smart.

This society eliminates geographical distance only to produce a new internal separation.

For me, there is no hope without faith. Faith is a higher good. Faith in our divinity.

Think Tank, noun: The shower.

Kevin Smith is so great in 'Kingdom Come,' isn't he? He's kind of this very earthy poet. He just has this immediate gregariousness, like, you kind of just want to be his pal.

When it became clear that Lennon was not going to speak with me, it really became a how-I-didn't-get-the-story story. It was a caper.

In that moment of salvation, of belief, they are opening their lives to the person of Jesus.

I love traveling. I love just going about on my own, feeling I have no roots.

Behind good brands lie stakeholder companies.