“Yes, I do enjoy walking at night. The world’s more to my liking then, not so loud, not so fast, not so crowded, and a good deal more mysterious.”

—Cornelia Funke

“Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open door. They were promising her a thousand unknown stories, a thousand doors into worlds she had never seen before.”

—Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“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.”

—Cornelia Funke

“Yes, I do enjoy walking at night. The world’s more to my liking then, not so loud, not so fast, not so crowded, and a good deal more mysterious.”

—Cornelia Funke

“Fear kills everything: your mind, your heart, your imagination.”

—Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”

—Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”

—Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

“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.”

—Inkdeath, Cornelia Funke

“So what? All writers are lunatics!”

— Cornelia Funke

“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.”

—Cornelia Funke.

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”

—Cornelia Funke - Inkheart

“Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”

—Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“Stories never really end even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”

—Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

“Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times? As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.” ”

— Cornelia Funke
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