Cornelia Funke Quotes

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.

There is no frigate like a book

Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.

All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.

And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any shelf, opened at any page, in which I would start and finish anywhere, mid-sentence sometimes. Wuthering Heights ran into Emma, which gave way to The Eustace Diamonds, which faded into Hard Times, which ceded to The Woman in White. Fragments. It didn't matter. Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline.

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death.

[Books] will visit you at your convenience, whether you are lonesome or not, on rainy days or fair. They propose themselves as either transient acquaintances or permanent friends. They will stay as long as you like, departing or returning as you wish. Their friendship entails no obligation. Best of all, and not always true of our merely human friends, they have Cleopatra's infinite variety.

Books were my passion and my escape from madness.

Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.

There's still nothing like a book to really make you feel like you've disappeared into a world.

I have always loved reading. Ever since I was a young girl I had a book by my bed and would get lost in the world of make believe.

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

The writers of books are companions in one's life and, as such, are often more interesting than other companions.

Reading was my hobby, my sport and my activity of choice. It was the prime pleasure of my days, an unfailing escape from whatever realities were distressing me, and the only source of pride I knew, other vanities lying beyond my grasp. I couldn't do anything else well, but I could do words.

If you have a book, you have a friend.

I love to read stories. And I don't to get to talk about my favorite novels very often in my job.

My favorite book growing up was 'The Little Prince.'

My portal to another world was fiction.

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.

Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy