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You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper.
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Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?
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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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Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.
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There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.
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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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Life was more difficult in Inkheart, yet it seemed to Meggie that with every new day Fenoglio's story was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful.
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I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.
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They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're a detective now, after all.
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How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words.
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What a plague love is!
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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 from German fairytales are to be found in my books.
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My son always says I like very weird music.
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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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They're all cruel,' he said. 'The world I come from, the world you come from, and this one, too. Maybe the people don't see the cruelty in your world right away, it's better hidden, but it's there all the same.
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I love to read aloud.
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Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.
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