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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.
Cornelia Funke
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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.
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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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Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?
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Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?
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Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.
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You really don't understand the first thing about writing...for one thing, early in the morning is the worst possible time. the brain is like a wet sponge at that hour. And for another, real writing is a question of staring into space and waiting for the right ideas.
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I love to read aloud.
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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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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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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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He flung his arms around her neck, but only once he saw Silvertoungue's back was turned. He never knew with fathers. I'll save him, Meggie! he wispered in her ear. I'll bring Dustfinger back. This story will have a happy ending.I swear!
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Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper.
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My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story,” said Dustfinger at last.
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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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Memories, so sweet and bitter.. they had both nourished and devoured him for so many years. Until a time came when they began to fade, turning faint and blurred, only an ache to be quickly pushed away because it went to your heart. For what was the use of remembering all you had lost?
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Where did the love come from? What was it made of?
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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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She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind?
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Reality is a fragile thing.
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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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