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Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.

Cornelia Funke

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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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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Beauty and fear make uneasy companions
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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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Every German child learns to speak English in school.
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And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.
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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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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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Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.
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You really don't understand the first thing about writing...for one thing, early in the morning is the worst possible time. the brain is like a wet sponge at that hour. And for another, real writing is a question of staring into space and waiting for the right ideas.
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I love to read aloud.
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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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My son always says I like very weird music.
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Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open door. They were promising her a thousand unknown stories, a thousand doors into worlds she had never seen before.
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I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.
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Words,words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers.
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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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Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta's constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his terror of the darkness within himself, which made him assume that the rest of the world must be exactly the same.
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Life was more difficult in Inkheart, yet it seemed to Meggie that with every new day Fenoglio's story was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful.
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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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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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