Desperate? So what? I'm desperate, too!" Fenoglio snapped at her. "My story is foundering in misfortune, and these hands here," he said holding them out to her, "don't want to write anymore! I'm afraid of words Meggie! 'Once they were like honey, now they're poison, pure poison! But what is a writer who doesn't love words anymore? What have I come to? This story is devouring me, crushing me, and I'm it's creator!

There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.

My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story,” said Dustfinger at last.

And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.

I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching us to wonder why trees are green and not red, and why we have five fingers rather than six.' --spoken by The Bluejay, aka Mo the Bookbinder, from 'Inkdeath

Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.