There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.

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.

I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

Live a fearless life.

If cats could count, they’d start getting nervous around the time they put paid to their fifth life.

I care about you," Simon said. "I always cared about you.

The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.

I like fictional stories - like, things that never happened but the seed of it starts as real.

Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue.

I'm upset. There was nothing like putting on the red shirt. (on retiring from international football)

I don't see,' I said, 'how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you're young you're so self-reliant. You don't even need much religion.