Cornelia Funke Quotes

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• 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.
• My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.
• Every German child learns to speak English in school.
• And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.
• Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
• Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.
• 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…
• I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.
• I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.
• I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.
• I wish I had more time to visit schools.
• Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?
• Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to…
• Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.
• Yes, I do enjoy walking at night. The world’s more to my liking then, not so loud, not so fast, not so crowded, and a…
• My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.
• I love to read aloud.
• I like to visit my horse, have a walk with my dog.
• I love to read, I love to watch movies, and I love to be with my children.
• My son always says I like very weird music.

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