Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.

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.

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

If the apocalypse comes...beep me!

Money buys everything except love, personality, freedom, immortality, silence, peace.

And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done.

The sky is the source of light in Nature and it governs everything.

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

If we can use our problems and illnesses as opportunities to think about how we can change our lives, we have power.

I don't want to be a big star. I just want to get my message across.

It broke the spell. It's not that I stopped being happy. I was still inexplicably, utterly happy. But suddenly the happiness had implications.

We didn't really expect to achieve anything outside of the UK, and it just went crazy. It's just crazy that people know our music. We're just humbled by it.