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Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper.

Cornelia Funke

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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Illustrator
Screenwriter
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Away
Nothing
Rustle
Chased
Nightmares
Printed
Nightmare
Faster
Paper

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Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!
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Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?
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The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core.
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Hey, don't take this the wrong way, but don't come back, ok?
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I wish I had more time to visit schools.
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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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Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose?
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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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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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Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
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Sometimes, when you’re sad you don’t know what to do, it helps to be angry. But then the tears come back again all the same, and you fall asleep with the salty taste of them on your lips.
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And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.
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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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Believe, believe, believe
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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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Thats beautiful! Sad and beautiful, murmured Meggie. Why were sad stories often so beautiful? It was different in real life.
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But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.
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Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.
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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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Everyone is small at night.
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