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Cornelia Funke
German
Author
About the author
I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.
Cornelia Funke,
German
Author
#Imagination
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.
Cornelia Funke,
German
Author
#People
#Thought
#Books
#England
#Motives
They are shooting The Thief Lord in Venice at the moment.
Cornelia Funke,
German
Author
#Venice
I love to read, I love to watch movies, and I love to be with my children.
Cornelia Funke,
German
Author
#Love
#Children
#Movies
Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
Cornelia Funke,
German
Author
#People
#Feeling
#Books
A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.
Cornelia Funke,
German
Author
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.
Cornelia Funke,
German
Author
#English
#Example
#Names
And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.
Cornelia Funke,
German
Author
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.
Cornelia Funke,
German
Author
#Children
#Earth
#Books
Yes, I always imagined living in other places.
Cornelia Funke,
German
Author
#Living
And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.
Cornelia Funke,
German
Author
#Father
There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.
Cornelia Funke,
German
Author
Every German child learns to speak English in school.
Cornelia Funke,
German
Author
#English
#School
Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.
Cornelia Funke,
German
Author
#Books
My son always says I like very weird music.
Cornelia Funke,
German
Author
#Music
#Son
My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.
Cornelia Funke,
German
Author
My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.
Cornelia Funke,
German
Author
#Daughter
#Son
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.
Cornelia Funke,
German
Author
#Kids
#Home
I wish I had more time to visit schools.
Cornelia Funke,
German
Author
#Time
#Visit
#Schools
I will try to write books until I drop dead.
Cornelia Funke,
German
Author
#Will
#Books
Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.
Cornelia Funke,
German
Author
I love to read aloud.
Cornelia Funke,
German
Author
#Love
I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside.
Cornelia Funke,
German
Author
I like to visit my horse, have a walk with my dog.
Cornelia Funke,
German
Author
#Visit
I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.
Cornelia Funke,
German
Author
#Love
I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.
Cornelia Funke,
German
Author
#Will
#Children
#Earth
#Brother
I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.
Cornelia Funke,
German
Author
#Horses
I don't like to eat the same dish every day, so I read very different things.
Cornelia Funke,
German
Author
#Day