The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus Cornelia Funke More Quotes by Cornelia Funke More Quotes From Cornelia Funke You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings. Cornelia Funke novelists book people If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it... yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than anything else. Cornelia Funke reading memories book 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 reading dream book 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. Cornelia Funke women grief doubt 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 real book thinking A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them. Cornelia Funke inkheart stories character She pressed her hand against her chest. No heart. So where did the love she felt come from? Cornelia Funke felt heart hands So what? All writers are lunatics! Cornelia Funke writing You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They think that writers are all dead long ago--they don't expect to meet them in the street or out shopping. They know their stories but not their names, and certainly not their faces. And most writers like it that way. Cornelia Funke long-ago book thinking When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins. Cornelia Funke theater book firsts We're all liars when it serves our purpose. Cornelia Funke inkheart purpose liars It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place Cornelia Funke strange-places book ideas The truth's not pretty of course. No one likes to look it in the face. Cornelia Funke likes faces looks Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love. Cornelia Funke happiness-and-love comfort book Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately. Cornelia Funke fire said water Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people. Cornelia Funke real character book Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness. Cornelia Funke inkdeath fearlessness fear You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them. Cornelia Funke inkheart eye dream Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose? Cornelia Funke heart-love taste heart 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 cheer-up inspirational book
