Cornelia Funke Quotes

Reading brings us unknown friends

For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.

Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.

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

Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.

I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There's a whole other world in books.

He would talk to them of stories and books, and explain to them how stories wanted to be told and books wanted to be read, and how everything that they ever needed to know about life and the land of which he wrote, or about any land or realm that they could imagine, was contained in books. And some of the children understood, and some did not.

If you have a book, you have a friend.

All my life, books have felt alive; some more so than people, or rather, some people. Alive - this has to do with me, I know, and not the books - in a way that some people aren't. Alive as teachers, alive as minds, alive as imaginative triggers.

Books wind into the heart.

Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.

He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends

It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.

There is no frigate like a book

I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.

The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.

And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.

We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.