Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.

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.

Solitude is a greater treasure than wealth.

It's not always so easy, " she said softly."Why not? It's a part of who you are, isn't it?" he asked with all the sympathy of an asp being prodded with a stick.

The great man is he that does not lose his child-heart.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

I think one of the reasons our court system wants to remove The 10 Commandments is because The 10 Commandments reminds us we are sinners.

It is impossible that anything will be well understood or well done that is taken into a reluctant understanding, and executed with a servile hand.

I think things happen between people for a reason.

The film business has changed so dramatically from when I started.

I'm not complicated at all. I say raps that your two-year-old son can learn.

Taxes shouldn't be higher; they should be fairer. We must be a party that's disciplined. We must make tough choices.