a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.

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.

Patience is the essence of clicking great Photographs!!

There's no money in poetry but then there's no poetry in money either.

This is my one and only life and it's a great and terrible and short and endless thing and none of us come out of it alive.

Winter, spring, summer, or fall, all you gotta do is call, and I'll be there, 'cause you've got a friend.

Everyone working 40 hrs a week should have a shot at a decent life.

I don't really talk about my process very much, because I feel like if I give something away, it might not come back.

What is there so ponderous in evil, that a thumb's bigness of it should outweigh the mass of things not evil, which were heaped into the other scale!

Service is a prerequisite for anything relating to luxury. That makes it (shopping) sensual and pleasurable.

I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.