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Every German child learns to speak English in school.

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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Illustrator
Screenwriter
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Children
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German
English
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School

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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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Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper.
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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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Are you really going to catch us and take us back to Esther? We don’t belong to her, you know.” Embarrassed, Victor stared at his shoes. “Well, children all have to belong to somebody,” he muttered. “Do you belong to someone?” “That’s different.” “Because you’re a grown-up?
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I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.
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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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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 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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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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If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.
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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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But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.
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Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.
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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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I wish I had more time to visit schools.
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Words,words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers.
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Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.
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Believe, believe, believe
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The truth's not pretty of course. No one likes to look it in the face.
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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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