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
I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there. – Cornelia Funke
I live in Hamburg; that’s in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside. – Cornelia Funke
Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people. – Cornelia Funke
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
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
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
I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination. – Cornelia Funke
