"She read and read and read, but she……" — Cornelia Funke
"She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn’t taste bad, but she was still unhappy."
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Cornelia Funke
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172 Quotes by Cornelia Funke
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My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.
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Every German child learns to speak English in school.
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And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.
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Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
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Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.
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I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives…
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I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.
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I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.
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I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children…
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I wish I had more time to visit schools.
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Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?
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