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