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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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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
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Where did the love come from? What was it made of?
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Beauty and fear make uneasy companions
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Words,words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers.
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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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What are stories for if we don't learn from them?
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Mortimer's face twisted when the Piper pressed his knife against his ribs. Oh yes, he's obviously made the wrong enemies in this story, thought Orpheus. And the wrong friends. But that was high-minded heroes for you. Stupid.
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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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My wife loves written words ... you know, words that stick to parchment and paper like dead flies, and it seems my father felt the same - but I want to hear words! Remember that when you are looking for the right words: You must ask yourself what they SOUND like! Glowing with passion, dark with sorrow, sweet with love, that's what I want. - Cosimo
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My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story,” said Dustfinger at last.
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What's the matter princess? Do you know the end of your story?
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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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They're all cruel,' he said. 'The world I come from, the world you come from, and this one, too. Maybe the people don't see the cruelty in your world right away, it's better hidden, but it's there all the same.
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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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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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Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to know.
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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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Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose?
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