Cornelia Funke Quotes

I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.

I like to draw late at night when the house is quiet.

I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it.

But, the best times I have found, in my life, are late at night or early in the morning and I think it's because you're outside the social realm.

Here everything is so wholly what I consider beautiful. In other words, there is peace here.

Peace and quiet govern the world.

The first thing he noticed was how quiet it was. This was nothing like the kind of quiet he heard when he woke up in the middle of the night after a bad dream. When that happened, there were always strange, unidentifiable sounds seeping into his room from the tiny gaps where the windowpanes weren't sealed together correctly. At those moments he could always tell there was life outside, even if all that life was fast asleep. It was a silence that wasn't silence at all.

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

I only really and truly fully relax on my own. Give me a sun lounger, a pool and a sea view, and I'm happy.

I live in a rural residential area. It's a great place for a walk. I'm at my happiest when I'm listening to my iPod while walking around where my feet take me.

It would be nice to be a bit autonomous again, to enjoy something a bit quiet.

In fact at home I sometimes like to be quiet and hear the sounds of the world outside.

Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.

I like dark places.

I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.

I like working in silence.

And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.

I felt very unstressed on my wedding day. I'm very grateful for that... spending the day on my own, being super quiet and happy and just puttering around doing my own thing.

I love to read, and I like the fact that there's some silence in my life.

The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.

I try to get to the beach every day. It brings sanity to my life. I'll just sit and read a book and enjoy the quiet.

When I need to think of, like, a peaceful scene or something, I think of my back garden in summertime. And whenever I hear the lawnmower next door, I always think it's really peaceful.

The real reason I love Bamburgh is that it's the only place in the world where I ever truly relax.

Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.

I love to sit down and have my drink in the afternoon. It's so lovely if there's no noise, no calamities, no children that have to be attended to.