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.

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?

Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.

Don't cry over spilt milk when you can milk another cow.

I live with a passionate passion. I know one day, I will be gone.

Every Nigerian must begin to raise their voice against our societal failures and call them as such at every juncture. In this way we could all bring about a modern, progressive and civilized society.

No morality can be founded on authority even if the authority were divine.

Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.

... the growing child must not be treated by those rigid rules of criminal procedure which confessedly fail to prevent offenses on the part of adults or cure adult offenders.

There can be no doubt that if we had been victorious on the Vistula, the revolutionary fires would have reached the entire continent.

We know next year was suppose to be our year, but we didn't feel like waiting when we think we can win now.

Monopoly is the condition of every successful business.