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Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.
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It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
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Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.
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Quite suddenly Meggie felt fear rise in her like black brackish water, she felt lost, terribly lost, she felt it in every part of her. She didn't belong here! What had she done?
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Why would we ever want to go back when your world is so accommodating with your telephones and your guns and what's that sticky stuff called ...duct tape.
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My children were all made from paper and printer's ink.
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What's the matter princess? Do you know the end of your story?
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When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.
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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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My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.
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Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.
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My wife loves written words ... you know, words that stick to parchment and paper like dead flies, and it seems my father felt the same - but I want to hear words! Remember that when you are looking for the right words: You must ask yourself what they SOUND like! Glowing with passion, dark with sorrow, sweet with love, that's what I want. - Cosimo
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Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta's constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his terror of the darkness within himself, which made him assume that the rest of the world must be exactly the same.
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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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Every German child learns to speak English in school.
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Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?
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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 door. They were promising her a thousand unknown stories, a thousand doors into worlds she had never seen before.
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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 that writers are all dead long ago--they don't expect to meet them in the street or out shopping. They know their stories but not their names, and certainly not their faces. And most writers like it that way.
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