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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people. Cornelia Funke Read Quote
I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination. Cornelia Funke Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
