Cornelia Funke Quotes

• Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.

  Cornelia Funke

  Topics in Fear

• Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn’t break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.

  Cornelia Funke

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Men And Women, Women

• It the book was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider’s web and enchantingly beautiful..

  Cornelia Funke

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  Tags in Books

• Book have to be heavy because the whole world’s inside them.

  Cornelia Funke

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  Tags in Books

• It’s a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place.

  Cornelia Funke

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  Tags in Books

• This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.

  Cornelia Funke

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  Tags in Books

• Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.

  Cornelia Funke

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• Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?

  Cornelia Funke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing, Character, Books

• Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: ‘Things are this way. You can’t change it’ – don’t believe a word.

  Cornelia Funke

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  Tags in Writing

• Stories never really end…even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don’t end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.

  Cornelia Funke

  Topics in Inspirational

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

  Cornelia Funke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Imagine, Happy

• 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.

  Cornelia Funke

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  Tags in Read, Example, Approve

• 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.

  Cornelia Funke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Different, Home, Book

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

  Cornelia Funke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Wanted, Imagination

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

  Cornelia Funke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feeling, Real, Books

• 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.

  Cornelia Funke

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Wanted, Story, Actually, Magical

• 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.

  Cornelia Funke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Thought, Found

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

  Cornelia Funke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Moment, Shooting

• And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.

  Cornelia Funke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Write, Plan

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

  Cornelia Funke

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  Tags in Library, Addict

Cornelia Funke (38)

Birth:	10th December, 1958
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Author, Novelist, Producer

About

Cornelia Maria Funke was born in Dorsten, Germany. She is a German author of children's fiction. Funke is best known for her Inkheart trilogy, published in 2004–2008. Many of her books have now been translated into English. She has sold over 20 million copies of her books worldwide. She also worked as a producer on the film adaptation of Inkheart. She currently lives in Beverly Hills, California.

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