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.

Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.

In a certain light, feminism is just the long, slow realization that the stuff you love hates you

Live as if your life has become an example of goodness for others to follow.

.if you think like any others you will not be different..

O Woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain coy and hard to please And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou!

Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.

I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'.

The good ideas will survive.

I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of — how shall I say, I don’t know.

What's hard in movies is to have a consistent tone throughout a movie. Whatever that is.

In Scotland football hooliganism has been met by banning alcohol from grounds but in England this solution has been circumnavigated