Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.

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.

In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a declaration of independence soon after.

I never listen to music when I write.

Democracy means decision by those concerned.

Taoism is the gentle way. The path of least resistence.

Movies are great, TV is great.

The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.

Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.

I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened.

Thou hast the most unsavoury similes.

Our favorite attitude should be gratitude.