If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.
Cornelia Funke
They are shooting The Thief Lord in Venice at the moment.
Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.
I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.
A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.
Every German child learns to speak English in school.
I like to visit my horse, have a walk with my dog.
I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.
Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
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.
I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.
And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.
And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.
My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.
And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.
My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.
I love to read aloud.
Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.
I love to read, I love to watch movies, and I love to be with my children.
My son always says I like very weird music.
There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.
I don't like to eat the same dish every day, so I read very different things.
I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.
I will try to write books until I drop dead.
I wish I had more time to visit schools.
I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside.
I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.
Yes, I always imagined living in other places.
