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Have you forgotten? she replied. In our world, the Witches work in hospitals.
~ Cornelia Funke
An author can be seen as three things: a storyteller, a teacher or a magician – but the magician, the enchanter is in the ascendant.
~ Cornelia Funke
Spindeln, Rosendornen ...' sagte das Mädchen abfällig. 'Die Brosche ist so viel besser.
~ Cornelia Funke
15 Minutes! Muttered Vidal, who like all monsters, like death, was always punctual.
~ Cornelia Funke
Got anything else in your backpack that we can use to tie him up?" asked Mo, nodding at the still unconscious Flatnose.
~ Cornelia Funke
No, the story much have a happy ending. It wouldn't be right otherwise! She had never liked sad stories.
~ Cornelia Funke
You want me to write something about him? Heavens, it was confusing enough when I had only my own characters to worry about!
~ Cornelia Funke
I do not dare, I do not dare to write it, if you die. Pablo Neruda, "The Dead Woman," The Captain's Verses
~ Cornelia Funke
The difference between reading a story and studying a story is the difference between living the story and killing the story and looking at its guts.
~ Cory Doctorow
my problem isn't piracy, it's obscurity
~ Cory Doctorow
YA doesn't get librarians fired!
~ Cory Doctorow
In short: if I'm wrong, I promise that I'll be wrong in a well-informed and interesting way.
~ Cory Doctorow
I waited outside her door while she went into her room and moved around. She opened her door, holding her laptop in one hand and its battery in the other.
~ Cory Doctorow
His whole identity rests on the idea that the system is legit and that he earned his position into it fair and square and everyone else is a whiner.
~ Cory Doctorow
He's a sucking chest wound of a human being. But if you're going to have a jailer, better a clueless one than one who's really on the ball.
~ Cory Doctorow
All evil in the world is the result of an imbalance between the people who benefit from shenanigans and the people who get screwed by shenanigans.
~ Cory Doctorow
Communism is an interesting thing to do, nothing I ever want to be.
~ Cory Doctorow
It gave you ironic distance—a very now kind of high. Conspiracy
~ Cory Doctorow
Death is cured! USA! USA! USA! "This is Canada." "Yeah, but you sound stupid chanting 'Ca-na-da!
~ Cory Doctorow
Any time I'm at work at 2:00 a.m., it's either PEBKAC or Microsloth.
~ Cory Doctorow
I'm always a bit shy around evil people...
~ Craig Ferguson
I've got mixed feelings about poetry cause done well poetry is fantastic. But not many people are capable of doing it well. I think you should have some kind of license to perform poetry. A poetic license perhaps.
~ Craig Ferguson
cahoots being a legal term in Wyoming, see cahooting in the first degree, intent to cahoot, and so on.
~ Craig Johnson
I don't trust people who don't like animals. Hell, animals are the finest people I know.
~ Craig Johnson