Cornelia Funke Quotes - Page 5

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

  Cornelia Funke

  Towns, Looks, Countryside

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• I will try to write books until I drop dead.

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Writing, Trying

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

  Cornelia Funke

  Young, Composer

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• No prince had lived in those wretched hovels, no red-robed bishops, only farmers and laborers whose stories no one had written down, and now they were lost, buried under wild thyme and fast growing spurge.

  Cornelia Funke

  Thyme, Bishops, Stories

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.116, Scholastic Inc.

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• And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.

  Cornelia Funke

  Writing, Dragons, Riders

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• Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Heartless, Promise

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.703, Scholastic Inc.

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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.

  Cornelia Funke

  Names, Example, Conversation

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• My son always says I like very weird music.

  Cornelia Funke

  Son, My Son

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

  Cornelia Funke

  Children, Watches, Watch Movie

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• And there stood Basta with his foot already on another dead body, smiling. Why not? He had hit his target, and it was the target he had been aiming for all along: Dustfinger’s heart, his stupid heart. It broke in two as he held Farid in his arms, it simply broke in two, although he had taken such good care of it all these years.

  Cornelia Funke

  Stupid, Taken, Heart

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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.

  Cornelia Funke

  Brother, Children, Book

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• Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Odd, Inkdeath

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.51, Chicken House

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• 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.

  Cornelia Funke

  Happiness, Heart, Being In Love

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• Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!

  Cornelia Funke

  Teeth, Lines, Poor

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.240, Scholastic Inc.

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• Yes, I do enjoy walking at night. The world’s more to my liking then, not so loud, not so fast, not so crowded, and a good deal more mysterious.

  Cornelia Funke

  Night, World, Mysterious

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.65, Scholastic Inc.

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

  Cornelia Funke

  Grandmother, Stories, Very Good

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• I love to read aloud.

  Cornelia Funke

  Love To Read

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

  Cornelia Funke

  Dog, Horse, My Dog

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• Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?

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  Butterfly, Doe, Caterpillars

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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

  Cornelia Funke

  Teaching, Thinking, Our World

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• Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do.

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Half, Remember

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.51, Scholastic Inc.

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• There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.

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  Men, Knives, Faces

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.399, Chicken House

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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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  Doors, Enough

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.123, Scholastic Inc.

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• Killing is easy," said Mo, "Dying is harder.

  Cornelia Funke

  Dying, Killing, Easy

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• Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word.

  Cornelia Funke

  Believe, Way, Curious

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