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Words are immortal - Elinor
Cornelia Funke
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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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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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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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My children were all made from paper and printer's ink.
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She had found him and was bringing back his thanks. Nor did she forget to mention that he had assured her that she was indeed the most beautiful fairy he had ever set eyes on.
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Hey, don't take this the wrong way, but don't come back, ok?
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The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out of his room. All was drowned by its silence. But Jacob loved the night. He felt it on his skin like a promise. Like a cloak woven from freedom and danger.
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Every German child learns to speak English in school.
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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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The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.
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My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story,” said Dustfinger at last.
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Don't let it worry you, not being able to speak,'Dustfinger had often told her. 'People tend not to listen anyway, right?
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We all know what fun it can be to get right into a book and live there for a while, but falling out of a story and suddenly finding yourself in this world doesn't seem to be much fun at all.
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I wish I had more time to visit schools.
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He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish.
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But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.
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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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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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Where did the love come from? What was it made of?
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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?
Cornelia Funke
The night swallowed him up like a thieving fox.
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