Quotes By Cornelia Funke

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

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.

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.

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

Every German child learns to speak English in school.

I love to read aloud.

I wish I had more time to visit schools.

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

Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.

There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.

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

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

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.

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

Yes, I always imagined living in other places.

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.

And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.

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

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

My son always says I like very weird music.

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

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

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

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

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

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.

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