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I wish I had more time to visit schools.

Cornelia Funke

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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So it's happened, I kept thinking, you're in the middle of a story exactly as you've always wanted, and it's horrible. Fear tastes quite different when you're not just reading about it, Meggie, and playing hero wasn't half as much fun as I'd expected.
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Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!
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Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
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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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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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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 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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They're all cruel,' he said. 'The world I come from, the world you come from, and this one, too. Maybe the people don't see the cruelty in your world right away, it's better hidden, but it's there all the same.
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Reality is a fragile thing.
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My wife loves written words ... you know, words that stick to parchment and paper like dead flies, and it seems my father felt the same - but I want to hear words! Remember that when you are looking for the right words: You must ask yourself what they SOUND like! Glowing with passion, dark with sorrow, sweet with love, that's what I want. - Cosimo
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Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?
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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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Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.
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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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My son always says I like very weird music.
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Beauty and fear make uneasy companions
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Believe, believe, believe
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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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The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus
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I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.
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