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My children were all made from paper and printer's ink.

Cornelia Funke

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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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And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.
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Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
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Believe, believe, believe
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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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My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.
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The night swallowed him up like a thieving fox.
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Words,words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers.
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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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Many [book] even lay flat in the floor open. Their spines upward. Elinor couldn't bear to look! Didn't the monster know that was the way to break a book's neck?
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