Cornelia Funke quotes - page 3

Cornelia Funke is a German author best known for her imaginative fantasy novels for children and young adults, such as the Inkheart trilogy. Her works have been translated into many languages and have won numerous international awards. She continues to inspire readers around the world with her creativity and vivid storytelling. Here are 128 of her quotes:

a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.

Cornelia Funke

Please," she whispered as she opened the book, "please get me out of here just for an hour or so, please take me far, far away.

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She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company.

Cornelia Funke

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?

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When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.

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My children were all made from paper and printer's ink.

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He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish.

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There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.

Cornelia Funke

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

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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.

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He longed for the deep as she longed for the night sky and for white lilies floating on water -- although she still tried to convince herself that love alone could feed her soul.

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

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Nobody loves only once.

Cornelia Funke

Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper.

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Every German child learns to speak English in school.

Cornelia Funke

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

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I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt like taking a pair of scissors and cutting it up.

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When the heart craved something so forcefully, then reason became nothing but helpless observer.

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

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But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.

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

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

Cornelia Funke