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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
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Spoken
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Eternal
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Word
Lives
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No prince had lived in those wretched hovels, no red-robed bishops, only farmers and laborers whose stories no one had written down, and now they were lost, buried under wild thyme and fast growing spurge.
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a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.
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He longed for the deep as she longed for the night sky and for white lilies floating on water -- although she still tried to convince herself that love alone could feed her soul.
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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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What are stories for if we don't learn from them?
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The truth's not pretty of course. No one likes to look it in the face.
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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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My son always says I like very weird music.
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Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.
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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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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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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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What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of the monotony that other people called the real world?
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Hey, don't take this the wrong way, but don't come back, ok?
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Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.
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It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
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So it's happened, I kept thinking, you're in the middle of a story exactly as you've always wanted, and it's horrible. Fear tastes quite different when you're not just reading about it, Meggie, and playing hero wasn't half as much fun as I'd expected.
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There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.
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And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.
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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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