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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
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Illustrator
Screenwriter
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Mythical
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Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?
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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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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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Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.
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Where did the love come from? What was it made of?
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He flung his arms around her neck, but only once he saw Silvertoungue's back was turned. He never knew with fathers. I'll save him, Meggie! he wispered in her ear. I'll bring Dustfinger back. This story will have a happy ending.I swear!
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And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.
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Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?
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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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I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.
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He put his hands on her shoulders and kissed her full on the mouth. His skin was wet with rain. When she didn't pull away, he took her face between his hands and kissed her again, on her forehead, on her nose, on her mouth once more. You will come, won't you? Promisse! he whispered.
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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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Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.
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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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What are stories for if we don't learn from them?
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a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.
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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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But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.
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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 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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