Cornelia Funke Quotes (85 Quotes)

The night swallowed him up like a thieving fox.

My wife loves written words ... you know, words that stick to parchment and paper like dead flies, and it seems my father felt the same - but I want to hear words! Remember that when you are looking for the right words: You must ask yourself what they SOUND like! Glowing with passion, dark with sorrow, sweet with love, that's what I want. - Cosimo

Belive you me, this maze is a labrinth!

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.

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

She had only to open a door, nothing but a door between the words,just large enough for her and Farid to pass through....

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

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

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

I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.

They are shooting The Thief Lord in Venice at the moment.

Yes, I always imagined living in other places.

I love to read, I love to watch movies, and I love to be with my children.

Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.

And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.

There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

My son always says I like very weird music.

Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

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

I love to read aloud.

Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.

Every German child learns to speak English in school.

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

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.

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.

I like to visit my horse, have a walk with my dog.

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

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.

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

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

I wish I had more time to visit schools.

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

I have a writing chamber stuffed with things children send me and lots of dragons because I collect them, and I look out into the woods from there.

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