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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.

Cornelia Funke

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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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 story in a place where children can actually go.
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Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.
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Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose?
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What are stories for if we don't learn from them?
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So it's happened, I kept thinking, you're in the middle of a story exactly as you've always wanted, and it's horrible. Fear tastes quite different when you're not just reading about it, Meggie, and playing hero wasn't half as much fun as I'd expected.
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He put his hands on her shoulders and kissed her full on the mouth. His skin was wet with rain. When she didn't pull away, he took her face between his hands and kissed her again, on her forehead, on her nose, on her mouth once more. You will come, won't you? Promisse! he whispered.
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My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story,” said Dustfinger at last.
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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 books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them, said Meggie.
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Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!
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She had only to open a door, nothing but a door between the words,just large enough for her and Farid to pass through.
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Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
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Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?
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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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The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core.
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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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Are you really going to catch us and take us back to Esther? We don’t belong to her, you know.” Embarrassed, Victor stared at his shoes. “Well, children all have to belong to somebody,” he muttered. “Do you belong to someone?” “That’s different.” “Because you’re a grown-up?
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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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I love to read aloud.
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Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper.
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She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company.
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