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I wish I had more time to visit schools.

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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Every German child learns to speak English in school.
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Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.
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A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.
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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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Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.
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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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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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And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.
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She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company.
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Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta's constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his terror of the darkness within himself, which made him assume that the rest of the world must be exactly the same.
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He longed for the deep as she longed for the night sky and for white lilies floating on water -- although she still tried to convince herself that love alone could feed her soul.
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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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But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.
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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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Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open door. They were promising her a thousand unknown stories, a thousand doors into worlds she had never seen before.
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There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.
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Beauty and fear make uneasy companions
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Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.
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Let's run away to Venice, and hide out in an old movie theater. We can dye our hair blonde, so no one will ever find us!
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My children were all made from paper and printer's ink.
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