Writer Quotes by Cornelia Funke

“All writers are insane!”

— Cornelia Funke

So what? All writers are lunatics!

— Cornelia Funke

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

— Cornelia Funke

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

— 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

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

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

— Cornelia Funke

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

— 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

“Of course, the marvels you hoped to find might not be waiting inside the covers, so then you closed the book, sorry…

— 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

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

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

— Cornelia Funke

“You are crazy!" whispered Meggie. "You're a total lunatic!" But her opinion did not impress Fenoglio in the slightest. "So what? All…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Cornelia Funke

You really don't understand the first thing about writing...for one thing, early in the morning is the worst possible time. the brain…

— 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

The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books…

— 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

“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

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

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

Desperate? So what? I'm desperate, too!" Fenoglio snapped at her. "My story is foundering in misfortune, and these hands here," he said…

— Cornelia Funke

“an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be…

— 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

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

— 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

If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different…

— Cornelia Funke

“You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside of them," said Meggie...”

— Cornelia Funke