It's amazing how large the things are that it's possible to overlook..

Avan was as religious as the next young dragon with his way to make in the world-which is to say that he held many traditional beliefs which he had n….

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization..

Peace means something different from 'not fighting'. Those aren't peace advocates, they're 'stop fighting' advocates. Peace is an active and complex ….

I've always thought fairies are like mushrooms, you trip over them when you're not thinking about them, but they're hard to spot when you're searchin….

Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop..

The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it's perfect. It's this whole world, this whole process of immersion, this journey. It'….

Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My attitude to….

It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books..

You know, class is like magic. There's nothing there you can point to, it evaporates if you try to analyse it, but it's real and it affects how peopl….

You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies..

Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real but it's pervasive….

If the purpose of literature is to illuminate human nature, the purpose of fantastic literature is to do that from a wider perspective. You can say d….

There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books..

What you can't pay back you pay forward..

There may be stranger reasons for being alive. There are books There’s interlibrary loan. There are books you can fall into and pull up over your hea….

If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable..

There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them..

I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day..

I do not miss my toys. I wouldn't play with them anyway. I am fifteen. I miss my childhood..

Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter..