Cornelia Funke Quotes

There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.

The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.

believe me. Sometimes when life looks to be at its grimmest, there's a light hidden at the heart of things. Clive Barker, Abarat

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.

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.

Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.

I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.

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?

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.

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.

Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.

But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.

Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.

Don't let it worry you, not being able to speak,'Dustfinger had often told her. 'People tend not to listen anyway, right?

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.

Why would we ever want to go back when your world is so accommodating with your telephones and your guns and what's that sticky stuff called ...duct tape.

A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.

In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?

We're all liars when it serves our purpose.

Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.

What's the matter princess? Do you know the end of your story?

Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.

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.

She pressed her hand against her chest. No heart. So where did the love she felt come from?

So what? All writers are lunatics!

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.

Hey, don't take this the wrong way, but don't come back, ok?

Please," she whispered as she opened the book, "please get me out of here just for an hour or so, please take me far, far away

It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place

I wish you luck,' she said, kissing him on the cheek. He still had the most beautiful eyes of any boy she'd ever seen. But now her heart beat so much faster for someone else.

My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story,” said Dustfinger at last.

I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.

I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside.

You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.

If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.

Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.

The truth's not pretty of course. No one likes to look it in the face.

My children were all made from paper and printer's ink.

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.

When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.

My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.

And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.

I don't like to eat the same dish every day, so I read very different things.

Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

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.

a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.

My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.