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?

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.

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.

I have no magic wand to control what other people think or do. I can control how I respond, and this is all that matters.

Birthday is special day of one's life

I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers.

What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns?

all stories are like those about the creation of the universe, no one was there, no one witnessed anything, yet everyone knows what happened.

Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.]

I have learned to imagine an invisible sign around each person's neck that says 'Make me feel important.

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

Naught so sweet as melancholy.

You lack a foot to travel? Then journey into yourself - that leads to transformation of dust into pure gold.