Cornelia Funke Quotes

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• You really don't understand the first thing about writing...for one thing, early in the morning is the worst possible time. the brain is like a…
• Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper.
• A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.
• In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?
• Words were useless. At times, they might sound wonderful, but they let you down the moment you really needed them. You could never find the…
• The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.
• She had only to open a door, nothing but a door between the words,just large enough for her and Farid to pass through....
• Killing is easy," said Mo, "Dying is harder...
• Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word.
• Everyone is small at night.
• The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus
• My wife loves written words ... you know, words that stick to parchment and paper like dead flies, and it seems my father felt the…
• Dustfinger inspected his reddened fingers and felt the taut skin. ‘He might tell me how my story ends,’ he murmured. Meggie looked at him in…
• So Mo began filling the silence with words. He lured them out of the pages as if they had only been waiting for his voice,…
• Sometimes, when you’re sad you don’t know what to do, it helps to be angry. But then the tears come back again all the same,…
• Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose?
• She always did like tales of adventure-stories full of brightness and darkness. She could tell you the names of all King Arthur's knights, and she…
• When it came to hiding, even Gwin had nothing to teach Dustfinger. A strange sense of curiosity had always driven him to explore the hidden,…
• The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed…
• The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out of…

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