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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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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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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 did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose?
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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.
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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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She had found him and was bringing back his thanks. Nor did she forget to mention that he had assured her that she was indeed the most beautiful fairy he had ever set eyes on.
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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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Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.
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But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.
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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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The night swallowed him up like a thieving fox.
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The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed 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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My children were all made from paper and printer's ink.
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Where did the love come from? What was it made of?
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My son always says I like very weird music.
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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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Mortimer's face twisted when the Piper pressed his knife against his ribs. Oh yes, he's obviously made the wrong enemies in this story, thought Orpheus. And the wrong friends. But that was high-minded heroes for you. Stupid.
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My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.
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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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The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core.
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