Cornelia Funke Quotes
"A library book, I imagine, is a happy book."
- Cornelia Funke
"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
(Related: English, Example, Names)
"And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider."
- Cornelia Funke
"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."
- Cornelia Funke
(Related: Books, Children, Earth)
"Yes, I always imagined living in other places."
- Cornelia Funke
(Related: Living)
"And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts."
- Cornelia Funke
(Related: Father)
"There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart."
- Cornelia Funke
"Every German child learns to speak English in school."
- Cornelia Funke
(Related: English, School)
"Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads."
- Cornelia Funke
(Related: Books)
"My son always says I like very weird music."
- Cornelia Funke
(Related: Music, Son)
"My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that."
- Cornelia Funke
"My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10."
- Cornelia Funke
(Related: Son, Daughter)
"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."
- Cornelia Funke
(Related: Home, Kids)
"I wish I had more time to visit schools."
- Cornelia Funke
(Related: Time, Schools, Visit)
"I will try to write books until I drop dead."
- Cornelia Funke
(Related: Books, Will)
"Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental."
- Cornelia Funke
"I love to read aloud."
- Cornelia Funke
(Related: Love)
"I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside."
- Cornelia Funke
"I like to visit my horse, have a walk with my dog."
- Cornelia Funke
(Related: Visit)
"I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young."
- Cornelia Funke
(Related: Love)
"I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there."
- Cornelia Funke
(Related: Brother, Children, Earth, Will)
"I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig."
- Cornelia Funke
(Related: Horses)
"I don't like to eat the same dish every day, so I read very different things."
- Cornelia Funke
(Related: Day)
"I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination."
- Cornelia Funke
(Related: Imagination)
"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."
- Cornelia Funke
(Related: Thought, People, Books, England, Motives)
"They are shooting The Thief Lord in Venice at the moment."
- Cornelia Funke
(Related: Venice)
"I love to read, I love to watch movies, and I love to be with my children."
- Cornelia Funke
(Related: Love, Movies, Children)