I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.

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.

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.

We are all we have

It was a beautiful lie that they had all been telling themselves—that you could have magic without monsters.

My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

My marriage and my families come certainly before my career.

I remember pretending to be the characters in the movies when I was a little kid.

I have terrible luck. Last week my chauffeur ran off without my wife.

ِAn offer you can't refuse.

The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.

It's wrong to flog a man. It's against his being a man.