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.
From Cornelia Funke
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.
A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.
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.
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.
They are shooting The Thief Lord in Venice at the moment.
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.
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