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Cornelia Funke

Read through the most famous quotes from Cornelia Funke




Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.


— Cornelia Funke


#love #love

You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.


— Cornelia Funke


#dreams

a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.


— Cornelia Funke


#dragons

Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.


— Cornelia Funke


#fearlessness #fearless

In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?


— Cornelia Funke


#love

All writers are insane!


— Cornelia Funke


#insanity #writers #humor

If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.


— Cornelia Funke


#life

perhaps because this time not fear but love made him read.


— Cornelia Funke


#elinor #love

Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word.


— Cornelia Funke


#change

It [the book] was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful..


— Cornelia Funke


#beauty






About Cornelia Funke






Did you know about Cornelia Funke?

Inkheart was the first part of a trilogy which was continued with Inkspell (2005) which won Funke her second BookSense Book of the Year Children's Literature award (2006). Batchelder Award for Herr der Diebe
2003 Nordstemmer Zuckerrübe for Kleiner Werwolf
2004 Preis der Jury der jungen Leser for Tintenherz (Inkheart)
2004 Phantastik-Preis der Stadt Wetzlar for Tintenherz
2004 Kalbacher Klapperschlange for Tintenherz
2004 Book Sense Children's Literature Award (Children's Literature Honor Books) for Inkheart
2006 Book Sense Book of the Year Children's Literature Winner for Inkspell
2008 Roswitha Prize
Cornelia Funke was voted into the Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of 2005. It was subsequently released as The Thief Lord by Scholastic and made it to the number 2 spot on The New York Times Best Seller list.

She was born on 10 December 1958 in Dorsten North Rhine-Westphalia. Many of her books have now been translated into English.

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