Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do.

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 divine moment is the grace of life-change.

All pain in life comes from suppressing your true identity.

Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.

I can't believe it. Maybe there is a God after all. Herbal supplement sales only grew 1 percent last year. The years before, it was 17 percent, 12 percent, 18 percent.

The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.

You have to change on the inside before change will happen on the outside.

When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.

It looks tough for Palace when you see some of the results they've got coming up.

I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there.

I thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner -- every time she ran, I ran.