Killing is easy, " said Mo, "Dying is harder...

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.

It is always easier to destroy a complex system than to selectively alter it.

It is important not to become a prisoner of fate.

No one knows a man better than himself.

I heard silence, silence infinite as the bottom of the ocean, a silence that sealed.

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite.

You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by Augustus McCrae

I've very fortunate to come from a great family who are extremely supportive of me and I'll always have them to fall back on.

New organs of perception come into being as a result of necessity. Therefore, O man, increase your necessity, so that you may increase your perception.

Bring the genius of the rich to unleash the genius of the poor.