Cornelia Funke
Cornelia Funke
Cornelia Maria Funkeis a German author of children's fiction. She was born on December 10, 1958, in Dorsten, North Rhine-Westphalia. Funke is best known for her Inkheart trilogy, published in 2004–2008. Many of her books have now been translated into English. Her work fits mainly into the fantasy and adventure genres. She currently lives in Beverly Hills, California...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth10 December 1958
CityDorsten, Germany
CountryGermany
Hey, don't take this the wrong way, but don't come back, ok?
What's that sticky stuff called? Basta: Duct tape. Yes, duct tape. I love duct tape.
I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs. - Elinor
There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.
You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.
A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.
We're all liars when it serves our purpose.
Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.
Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.
The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.
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.
What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of the monotony that other people called the real world?
Down there the nights are bright and nobody believes in the Devil.
I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages. I pledge to use books as doors to other minds, old and young, girl and boy, man and animal. I pledge to use books to open windows to a thousand different worlds and to the thousand different faces of my own world. I pledge to use books to make my universe spread much wider than the world I live in every day. I pledge to treat my books like friends, visiting them all from time to time and keeping them close.