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A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

Cornelia Funke

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus
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What's the matter princess? Do you know the end of your story?
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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 right words, never, and where would you look for them? The heart is as silent as a fish, however much the tongue tries to give it a voice.
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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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Thats beautiful! Sad and beautiful, murmured Meggie. Why were sad stories often so beautiful? It was different in real life.
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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.
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And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.
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My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story,” said Dustfinger at last.
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I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching us to wonder why trees are green and not red, and why we have five fingers rather than six.' --spoken by The Bluejay, aka Mo the Bookbinder, from 'Inkdeath
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My son always says I like very weird music.
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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 the pages of a book, wonderful friends.
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Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to make wonderful worlds better than this one, comforters, companions in loneliness. Keepers of secrets, speakers of the truth...all those glorious words.
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I love to read aloud.
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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 pair of scissors and cutting it up.
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There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.
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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 thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.
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But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.
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Fire and water, he said, don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.
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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.
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Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.
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