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My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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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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a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.
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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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You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.
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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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Every German child learns to speak English in school.
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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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She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind?
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I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.
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Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.
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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 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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I love to read aloud.
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I wish you luck,' she said, kissing him on the cheek. He still had the most beautiful eyes of any boy she'd ever seen. But now her heart beat so much faster for someone else.
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Second, there are so many magical places in books that you cant go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.
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Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?
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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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Fire and water, he said, don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.
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Every book should begin with attractive endpapers. Preferably in a dark colour: dark red or dark blue, depending on the binding. When you open the book it's like going to the theatre. First you see the curtain. Then it's pulled aside and the show begins.
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Let's run away to Venice, and hide out in an old movie theater. We can dye our hair blonde, so no one will ever find us!
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