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There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
Author
Illustrator
Screenwriter
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Mythical
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I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching us to wonder why trees are green and not red, and why we have five fingers rather than six.' --spoken by The Bluejay, aka Mo the Bookbinder, from 'Inkdeath
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This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.
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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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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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Many [book] even lay flat in the floor open. Their spines upward. Elinor couldn't bear to look! Didn't the monster know that was the way to break a book's neck?
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Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?
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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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I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.
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The truth's not pretty of course. No one likes to look it in the face.
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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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And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.
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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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Reality is a fragile thing.
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My children were all made from paper and printer's ink.
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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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The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus
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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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Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.
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Every German child learns to speak English in school.
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Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?
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