Cornelia Funke Quotes

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• There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.
• I don't like to eat the same dish every day, so I read very different things.
• I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside.
• I will try to write books until I drop dead.
• Second, there are so many magical places in books that you cant go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a…
• A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.
• And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.
• And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.
• I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.
• Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more…
• 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 between the pages…
• Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.
• If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing…
• This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between…
• Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!
• Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering…
• If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.
• The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find…
• And there stood Basta with his foot already on another dead body, smiling. Why not? He had hit his target, and it was the target…
• 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…

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