Books Quotes by Cornelia Funke

I love to read aloud.

— Cornelia Funke

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

— Cornelia Funke

“Perhaps the story now goes on beyond the book.”

— Cornelia Funke

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

— Cornelia Funke

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

— Cornelia Funke

Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.

— Cornelia Funke

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

— Cornelia Funke

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

— Cornelia Funke

Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?

— Cornelia Funke

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

— Cornelia Funke

“yes, books are like flypapers. Memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.”

— Cornelia Funke

You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.

— Cornelia Funke

“Some books should be tasted,some devoured but only few should be chewed and digested thouroughly”

— Cornelia Funke

The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back…

— Cornelia Funke

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

— Cornelia Funke

“It [the book] was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful..”

— Cornelia Funke

I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German…

— Cornelia Funke

Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side…

— Cornelia Funke

Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a…

— Cornelia Funke

Every book should begin with attractive endpapers. Preferably in a dark colour: dark red or dark blue, depending on the binding. When…

— Cornelia Funke

“Although it’s not just plants and animals that die out, so do books. Quite often, I’m sorry to say. I’m sure you…

— Cornelia Funke

“Meggie thought this first whisper sounded a little different from one book to another, depending on weather or not she already knew…

— Cornelia Funke

“claimed to be the man who wrote a certain book – what was its name again?" "Inkheart." Fenoglio rubbed his aching back.…

— Cornelia Funke

“A longing for books [is] nothing compared with what you [can] feel for human beings. The books [tell] you about that feeling.…

— Cornelia Funke

Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last…

— Cornelia Funke

There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They…

— Cornelia Funke

“For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his…

— Cornelia Funke

Go back and rid the word of that book. Fill it with words before spring comes, or winter will never end for…

— Cornelia Funke

you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom…

— Cornelia Funke

I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages. I pledge to use books as doors to other…

— Cornelia Funke

“Elinor had read countless stories in which the main characters fell sick at some point because they were so unhappy. She had…

— Cornelia Funke

Perhaps there's another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our own world does. And the…

— Cornelia Funke

“How well worn they all were..."Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had…

— Cornelia Funke

Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.

— Cornelia Funke

“I'd rather spend my money on books than unnecessary electricity...”

— Cornelia Funke

A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.

— Cornelia Funke

“I always used to read aloud to her in the evenings--”

— Cornelia Funke

Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?

— Cornelia Funke

Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do.

— Cornelia Funke

It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place

— Cornelia Funke