Cornelia Funke (Writer)

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book. ➡

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. ➡

And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider. ➡

I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig. ➡

They are shooting The Thief Lord in Venice at the moment. ➡

Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental. ➡

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination. ➡

My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that. ➡

I like to visit my horse, have a walk with my dog. ➡

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts. ➡

I will try to write books until I drop dead. ➡

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people. ➡

I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there. ➡

I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young. ➡

I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside. ➡

I wish I had more time to visit schools. ➡

There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart. ➡

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 I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it. ➡

My son always says I like very weird music. ➡

Every German child learns to speak English in school. ➡

I don't like to eat the same dish every day, so I read very different things. ➡

I love to read aloud. ➡

I love to read, I love to watch movies, and I love to be with my children. ➡

My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10. ➡