Quotes from Cornelia Funke

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

Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.

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

Neither Goyl nor men lived long enough to understand that yesterday was born of tomorrow, just as tomorrow was born of yesterday.

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

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

I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs. - Elinor

Dustfinger closed his eyes and listened. He was home again.

Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.

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

And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.

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.

My son always says I like very weird music.

Sometimes, when you're sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry. But then the tears come back again all the same, and you fall asleep with the salty taste of them on your lips.

Thats beautiful! Sad and beautiful," murmured Meggie. Why were sad stories often so beautiful? It was different in real life.

Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.

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

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

Life was more difficult in Inkheart, yet it seemed to Meggie that with every new day Fenoglio's story was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful.

Every German child learns to speak English in school.

It's the same in real life: Notorious murderers get off scot-free and live happily all their lives, while good people die - sometimes the very best people. That's the way of the world.

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

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