She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company.

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.

Filtering solar radiation with air pollution is a bad idea.

Ambition having reached the summit longs to descend.

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

Everything is so infinitely simple, so infinitely beautiful.

It's more important to be happy than well-dressed.

The comedy I like the best is comedy I can't do, stuff that doesn't touch my arena.

We all lived through September 11. I was here at the Capitol that day. I saw the evil of our enemies written in the smoke rising above the Pentagon.

Every moment spent in negativity is paid for with something truly priceless. That something is life.

It's clear all the way through history that practices are primary and beliefs are secondary.

Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble.