You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.

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.

War is ever the folly of the ignorant. But I have seen much to convince me some wars must be fought, to the bitterest end if need be.

Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own.

My first job was a commercial for Ball Park Fun Franks.

I never think of my age, never. I could be 20 or 100. I never think about it, I'm just me.

If our 'message' is anything, it's a positive approach to life. That life is basically good. People are basically good.

My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it

Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution says Congress has the ability to coin money and regulate the currency and doesn't say anything about gold or silver.