Quote

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.

Cornelia Funke

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
Author
Illustrator
Screenwriter
Writer
Always
England
People
Heard
Books
Found
Motives
Thought
Influenced
Book
German
Many
Hadn
Much
Motive

More quotes by Cornelia Funke

Image
Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?
Cornelia Funke
Image
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.
Cornelia Funke
Image
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.
Cornelia Funke
Image
What a plague love is!
Cornelia Funke
Image
The truth's not pretty of course. No one likes to look it in the face.
Cornelia Funke
Image
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
Image
Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper.
Cornelia Funke
Image
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?
Cornelia Funke
Image
Reality is a fragile thing.
Cornelia Funke
Image
My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.
Cornelia Funke
Image
A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.
Cornelia Funke
Image
This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.
Cornelia Funke
Image
Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.
Cornelia Funke
Image
-You forgot something important! -What? -It's under my sweater! -WHAT?! -Me!
Cornelia Funke
Image
I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt like taking a pair of scissors and cutting it up.
Cornelia Funke
Image
Quite suddenly Meggie felt fear rise in her like black brackish water, she felt lost, terribly lost, she felt it in every part of her. She didn't belong here! What had she done?
Cornelia Funke
Image
Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!
Cornelia Funke
Image
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.
Cornelia Funke
Image
You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They think that writers are all dead long ago--they don't expect to meet them in the street or out shopping. They know their stories but not their names, and certainly not their faces. And most writers like it that way.
Cornelia Funke
Image
And there stood Basta with his foot already on another dead body, smiling. Why not? He had hit his target, and it was the target he had been aiming for all along: Dustfinger’s heart, his stupid heart. It broke in two as he held Farid in his arms, it simply broke in two, although he had taken such good care of it all these years.
Cornelia Funke