Every German child learns to speak English in school.

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.

Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.

Not being able to rebound better was a thorn in our foot.

Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.

In the Emperor's New Clothes, they got a different celebrity to do each voice. They drew up a picture of each character and then each actor wrote their own part

Determination means to use every challenge you meet as an opportunity to open your heart and soften, determined to not withdraw.

Climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth.

Men and women existed before creeds; love is the only religion.

In baseball, there's always the next day

The only things we keep permanently are those we give away.

For the red carpet, I think dress first and the makeup to follow.