Cornelia Funke Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.”
-- Cornelia FunkeSource : Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.137, Chicken House
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“If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it... yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.”
-- Cornelia FunkeSource : Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.21, Scholastic Inc.
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“Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.”
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“The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.”
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“Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?”
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“A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.”
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“The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.”
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“You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They think that writers are all dead long ago--they don't expect to meet them in the street or out shopping. They know their stories but not their names, and certainly not their faces. And most writers like it that way.”
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“When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.”
-- Cornelia FunkeSource : Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.60, Scholastic Inc.
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“You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.”
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“The truth's not pretty of course. No one likes to look it in the face.”
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“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.”
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“We're all liars when it serves our purpose.”
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“Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose?”
-- Cornelia FunkeSource : Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.435, Chicken House
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“In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?”
-- Cornelia FunkeSource : Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.147, Scholastic Inc.
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“A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.”
-- Cornelia FunkeSource : "Inkdeath". Book by Cornelia Funke, www.seventeen.com. 2007.
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“The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.”
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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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“I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.”
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“Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.”
-- Cornelia FunkeSource : Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.217, Chicken House
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“It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place”
-- Cornelia FunkeSource : Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.20, Scholastic Inc.
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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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“And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.”
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“Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.”
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“Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.”
-- Cornelia FunkeSource : Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.65, Scholastic Inc.
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“Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”
-- Cornelia FunkeSource : Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.25, Scholastic Inc.
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“Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.”
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“Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to make wonderful worlds better than this one, comforters, companions in loneliness. Keepers of secrets, speakers of the truth...all those glorious words.”
-- Cornelia Funke
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