Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to know.

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.

No. I just like dabbing girls' faces with napkins. It's a fetish of mine. Don't worry - my shrink says it's harmless.

Drawing her closer he tucked his chin and lifted hers to meet his abysmal onyx eyes.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

A few mistakes don't worry me; what worries me is when you make the mistakes and then forget your role on the team and start to worry about your ego.

Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

We have an obligation to give something back to the community that gives so much to us.

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl

I do appreciate that the most important thing as manager is to get good results.