Cornelia Funke Quotes

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Cornelia Funke

Profession : Author

Birth : December 10, 1958

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

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I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.

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There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.

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

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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.

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And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.

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My son always says I like very weird music.

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Every German child learns to speak English in school.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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Yes, I always imagined living in other places.

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I love to read aloud.

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

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

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

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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.

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