Cornelia Funke Quotes

It's true, I don't like the real world.

The movie is more real in so many ways than the life I am leading. No, that’s not true. I just desperately wish this was only a movie.

Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there.

Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

It's the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I'm a daydreamer; I don't feel in harmony with my epoch or the societies I live in.

Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.

They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real.

Reality is a dirty word for me, I know it isn't for most people, but I am not interested. There's too much of it about.

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real life.

Fantasy Man's my favourite, I think, because he's sort of like Don Quixote. He lives in a fantasy world, but he gets jolted back into reality, and I guess that's me, really!

It's easy to live in a fantasy world, and that's why I refuse to live in an isolated environment.

And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.

I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn’t last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back.

Me, I was already jaded and tarnished, skeptical that a fantasy world could keep reality at bay.

I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.

Never face reality unless your reality is just the way you want it to be.

I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.

See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.

So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality.

Adults are living increasingly as children: completely in their imaginations. Reading Harry Potter while every newspaper in the country goes out of business. They know so little that is real.

I have abandoned my search for truth and am now looking for a good fantasy

How easy it is for a fantasy to grab hold of your foot like a rope, and dangle your life upside down while brigands go through your pockets. Deal with the life you've got. Solve the problems you have, rather than fantasizing about a life without them.

Dreams, dreams. I walk them; I live them. I delude myself with them. It's a wonder I can spot reality anymore.