Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

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.

Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.

the inletour friend looks as he didwhen we first knew him, and until I wake I believeI will die of grief, for I knowthat this boy grew into a manwho was a faithful friendwho died.

The major mistake people pursue in decision making is to surround themselves with negatively minded people. People who are going nowhere will never take you anywhere

I don't think you can decide how famous or not you become.

Cincinnati is perfect for me. I've met a lot of good people there who like to fish.

The UK is a very international country.

Musicians know all about unemployment. You're unemployed a lot, and I think there's a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.

The world is full of people who all want the same thing, and you have to do a little something extra to make them remember you.

When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.

I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary.