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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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But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.
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Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.
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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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She had only to open a door, nothing but a door between the words,just large enough for her and Farid to pass through.
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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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There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.
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-You forgot something important! -What? -It's under my sweater! -WHAT?! -Me!
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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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Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?
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They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're a detective now, after all.
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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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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.
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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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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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The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus
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Words are immortal - Elinor
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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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