“Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.”
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deutsche Schriftstellerin, Kinderbuchautorin, Jugendbuchautorin, Illustratorin, Filmproduzentin Cornelia Maria Funke is a German author of children's fiction. Often referred to as the "German J. K. Rowling", Funke was chosen by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in their 2005 list. **Source**: [Cornelia Funke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelia_Funke) on Wikipedia
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“Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.”
“There is a sort of busy worm, That will the fairest book deform. Their tasteless tooth will tear and taint The poet, patriot, sage or saint, Nor sparing wit nor learning. Now, if you’d know...”
“I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.”
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“I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside.”
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“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.”
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