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She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company.

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.
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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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He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish.
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What's the matter princess? Do you know the end of your story?
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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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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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Hey, don't take this the wrong way, but don't come back, ok?
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Memories, so sweet and bitter.. they had both nourished and devoured him for so many years. Until a time came when they began to fade, turning faint and blurred, only an ache to be quickly pushed away because it went to your heart. For what was the use of remembering all you had lost?
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Go back and rid the word of that book. Fill it with words before spring comes, or winter will never end for you. And I will take not only your life for the Adderhead's but your daughter's, too, because she helped you bind the book. Do you undersand, Bluejay Why two? asked Mo hoarsely. How can you ask for two lives in return for one?
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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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Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper.
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How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words.
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Words were useless. At times, they might sound wonderful, but they let you down the moment you really needed them. You could never find the right words, never, and where would you look for them? The heart is as silent as a fish, however much the tongue tries to give it a voice.
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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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Words are immortal - Elinor
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There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.
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