Cornelia Funke Quotes

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

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

I love to read aloud.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I wish I had more time to visit schools.

And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.

There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.

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

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

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

Yes, I always imagined living in other places.

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

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 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.

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.

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.

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.

Every German child learns to speak English in school.