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

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.
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Fire and water, he said, don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.
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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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A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.
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a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.
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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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Let's run away to Venice, and hide out in an old movie theater. We can dye our hair blonde, so no one will ever find us!
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I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.
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What are stories for if we don't learn from them?
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There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.
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I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching us to wonder why trees are green and not red, and why we have five fingers rather than six.' --spoken by The Bluejay, aka Mo the Bookbinder, from 'Inkdeath
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Where did the love come from? What was it made of?
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When it came to hiding, even Gwin had nothing to teach Dustfinger. A strange sense of curiosity had always driven him to explore the hidden, forgotten corners of this and any other place, and all that knowledge had now come in useful.
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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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Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!
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Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?
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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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I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.
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Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to know.
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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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