I'm perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It's a lot safer.

Life was more difficult in Inkheart, yet it seemed to Meggie that with every new day Fenoglio's story was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful.

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.

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.

Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?

Hey, don't take this the wrong way, but don't come back, ok?

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