She had only to open a door, nothing but a door between the words,just large enough for her and Farid to pass through.

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.

Stop being afraid of fear, let it be scared of you

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.

The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

In a sense it's a one-man show... except there are two men involved, Hartson and Berkovic, and a third man, the goalkeeper.

The relevant part of the First Amendment here prohibits the making of any law, quote, "abridging the freedom of speech." And it's pretty well-established that speech comes in many forms.

I believe in numbers and signs.

The hand that rocks the cradle should also rock the boat.