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
I have a writing chamber stuffed with things children send me and lots of dragons because I collect them, and I look out into the woods from there.
You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.
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.
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.
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.
Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.
A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.
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?
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.
She pressed her hand against her chest. No heart. So where did the love she felt come from?
She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind?
If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.
She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company.
Please," she whispered as she opened the book, "please get me out of here just for an hour or so, please take me far, far away