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Books Quotes by Cornelia Funke
- Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
- 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…
- Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open…
- There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar voices,…
- The books in Mo and Meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms. There where books in the kitchen…
- It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
- What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks?" asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the house. You're the one who says…
- Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do.
- Because by now Elinor had understood this, too: A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel for human beings. The books…
- Weren’t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way,…
- I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages. I pledge to use books as doors to other minds, old and…
- You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They think…
- Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?
More Books Quotes
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood