You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They think that writers are all dead long ago--they don't expect to meet them in the street or out shopping. They know their stories but not their names, and certainly not their faces. And most writers like it that way.

Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.

A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.

I don't like to eat the same dish every day, so I read very different things.

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.

What a plague love is!