Every German child learns to speak English in school.
Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.
A thousand enemies outside the house are better than one within. Arab proverb
My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.
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.
Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.