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I love to read aloud.

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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Every book should begin with attractive endpapers. Preferably in a dark colour: dark red or dark blue, depending on the binding. When you open the book it's like going to the theatre. First you see the curtain. Then it's pulled aside and the show begins.
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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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Sometimes, when you’re sad you don’t know what to do, it helps to be angry. But then the tears come back again all the same, and you fall asleep with the salty taste of them on your lips.
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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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My children were all made from paper and printer's ink.
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Reality is a fragile thing.
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-You forgot something important! -What? -It's under my sweater! -WHAT?! -Me!
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Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.
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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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Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?
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Words,words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers.
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Don't let it worry you, not being able to speak,'Dustfinger had often told her. 'People tend not to listen anyway, right?
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Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
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Hey, don't take this the wrong way, but don't come back, ok?
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And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.
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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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A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.
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Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.
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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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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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