Lauren Craig
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Cornelia Funke:
How did you come up with the idea for Inkheart? I have unfortunately lost my copy, but I loved it dearly.
Cornelia Funke
I think every reader know the feeling that literary characters sometimes seem more real than the people we know in so called reality. Part of the reason is of course that we are often allowed to peak right into the inner secrets of their hearts - something that we rarely are allowed to do even with close friends. I wanted to write a story about that feeling: that they are so real that they might come out at any time. But then of course the story had it's own mind - Mo's bus had already appeared for The ThiefLord (in chapters i later on cut) even the first chapter had given me a glimpse of it years earlier but I didn't know what it intended to tell me. And then there was Dustfinger, a character i learned more about when I saw fire eaters on a German medieval market. As you see.....each book feeds on many sources. This one also became a story about writing...but I realized that only in Inkspell
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Joanna
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Cornelia Funke:
Hi Cornelia! I've been a huge fan of yours since I was a child and years later you're still one of my favorite authors! Thank you so much for writing the Inkworld trilogy and bringing amazing characters to life! Also, I wanted to ask if there is anything you could tell us about Basta's, Firefox's or the Piper's backstories, or any extra facts about them at all? Thank you!
Weronika Zimna
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Cornelia Funke:
Hi! :) First of all - a very big thank you. You totally made my childhood and you're one of the reasons (probably the second one, just behind my mom) for which I started loving books. Well, I'm a bit older now and I still enjoy your work very much. Now - the question - when did you start writing? Did you like it as a kid? Oh, I have one more - will you ever come back to the characters from the "Inkworld" trilogy?
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