And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider. |
I like to visit my horse, have a walk with my dog. |
I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig. |
I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young. |
I love to read, I love to watch movies, and I love to be with my children. |
A library book, I imagine, is a happy book. |
They are shooting The Thief Lord in Venice at the moment. |
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 wish I had more time to visit schools. |
Yes, I always imagined living in other places. |
Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental. |
My son always says I like very weird music. |
I love to read aloud. |
And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts. |
My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10. |
I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination. |
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. |
Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads. |
There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart. |
Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people. |