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The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus

Cornelia Funke

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
Author
Illustrator
Screenwriter
Writer
Lives
Insect
Nothing
Insects
Spoken
Hardly
Eternal
Longer
Written
Word

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If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.
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I wish you luck,' she said, kissing him on the cheek. He still had the most beautiful eyes of any boy she'd ever seen. But now her heart beat so much faster for someone else.
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My son always says I like very weird music.
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Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.
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But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.
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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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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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Meggie Folchart: Having writer's block? Maybe I can help. Fenoglio: Oh yes, that's right. You want to be a writer, don't you? Meggie Folchart: You say that as if it's a bad thing. Fenoglio: Oh no, it's just a lonely thing. Sometimes the world you create on the page seems more friendly and alive than the world you actually live in.
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The night swallowed him up like a thieving fox.
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And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.
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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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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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You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.
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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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Hey, don't take this the wrong way, but don't come back, ok?
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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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Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.
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What are stories for if we don't learn from them?
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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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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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