Book Quotes by Cornelia Funke

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

— 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

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

— Cornelia Funke

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

— Cornelia Funke

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

— 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

Many [book] even lay flat in the floor open. Their spines upward. Elinor couldn't bear to look! Didn't the monster know that…

— Cornelia Funke

She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if…

— 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

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

— 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

This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can…

— 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

We all know what fun it can be to get right into a book and live there for a while, but falling…

— Cornelia Funke

“Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went…

— Cornelia Funke

“If you take a book with you on a journey,’ Mo had said when he put the first one in her box,…

— Cornelia Funke

“Every book should begin with attractive endpapers,' he had once told Meggie. 'Preferably in a dark color: dark red or dark blue…

— Cornelia Funke

Weren’t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in…

— 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

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

So Mo began filling the silence with words. He lured them out of the pages as if they had only been waiting…

— 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

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

— Cornelia Funke

Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left…

— Cornelia Funke

The books in Mo and Meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms. There where books…

— Cornelia Funke

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

— Cornelia Funke

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

— Cornelia Funke

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

— Cornelia Funke

If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.

— Cornelia Funke

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

— Cornelia Funke

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

— Cornelia Funke

I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt…

— Cornelia Funke

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

— Cornelia Funke