I wish I had more time to visit schools.

I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.

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

There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.

If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.

I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.

Every German child learns to speak English in school.

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 love to read aloud.

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

I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.

My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.

Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.

And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.

I like to visit my horse, have a walk with my dog.

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

They are shooting The Thief Lord in Venice at the moment.

Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside.

My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.

I love to read, I love to watch movies, and I love to be with my children.

My son always says I like very weird music.

I wish I had more time to visit schools.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

Yes, I always imagined living in other places.

I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.

Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

Children theyre the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world any world. The very best of all.

Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.

Reality is a fragile thing.

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won't change.

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

Schools that are to cater for the whole population must offer courses that are as rich and varied as are the needs and abilities of the children who enter them.

We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.

At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum.

I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools.

And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.

I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system.

Lesbianism is so rampant in some of the schools in southeast Oklahoma that they'll only let one girl go to the bathroom. Now think about it. Think about that issue. How is it that that's happened to us?

Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.

Good schools, good jobs, good government. These are not unreasonable demands. But sadly, some of our people have already lost heart and have left Hawaii to look for these things elsewhere.

Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.