Cornelia Funke
Cornelia Funke
Cornelia Maria Funkeis a German author of children's fiction. She was born on December 10, 1958, in Dorsten, North Rhine-Westphalia. Funke is best known for her Inkheart trilogy, published in 2004–2008. Many of her books have now been translated into English. Her work fits mainly into the fantasy and adventure genres. She currently lives in Beverly Hills, California...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth10 December 1958
CityDorsten, Germany
CountryGermany
Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to know.
I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside.
My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.
I love to read aloud.
I will try to write books until I drop dead.
Second, there are so many magical places in books that you cant go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.
A thousand enemies outside the house are better than one within. Arab proverb
Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!
Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.
Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.
Let's run away to Venice, and hide out in an old movie theater. We can dye our hair blonde, so no one will ever find us!
Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain the secrets?
-You forgot something important! -What? -It's under my sweater! -WHAT?! -Me!
Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.