How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words.

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 would live forever if I could, but not like this.

Even now I can’t describe the fear that contaminated my blood like black ink.

A hell, from which one can be saved by a quibble that would carry no weight with a police magistrate, cannot be taken very seriously.

No matter what happens, I feel very good about the future.

There are three types of intelligence. The intelligence of man, the intelligence of animals and the intelligence of the military. In that order.

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.

Sometimes, things are just exercises.

I try to use pain as fuel for my work.

We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.

Health, money. That's what people worried about in the 14th century as much as today. I find it so much more interesting than the supposed activities of kings, queens, generals.