Cornelia Funke Quotes

Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'.

I've always had a slightly overactive imagination.

The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.

I read a lot of fantasy and grew up on 'Star Wars' and 'Star Trek.' I loved going to Middle Earth. 'Dungeons & Dragons' was a huge influence.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

I've always had a real interest in the way that science fiction can portray a world that could be different to our world, which I find a really exciting thought.

Science fiction to me is the ultimate art form, because it speculates on bodies and worlds that don't exist.

I am a bit of a 'dreamer,' so I love fantasizing about utopian futures, and I also love the way you can explore big concepts in sci fi.

Imagination makes us shape better stories, sure, but it also allows us to multiply possibilities.

It's fun because you can escape and learn about what other people's minds have created. It inspires you to think maybe you could come up with a creature yourself. I like that.

The technical process which is interesting in it's own right but I think the creative process is what's more intriguing to me.

But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!

Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions.

I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn't quite of the real world.

It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.

I'm always working on something. I wish I had more time for free-thinking and brainstorming new ideas. That's not to say my mind doesn't wander, but I find myself wishing for more of that kind of time.

I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.

I tend to think in dramatic terms. In life, there may be an actual drama, but it would be the fictionalized, imagined drama that engaged me.

Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.... Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying.... Open your eyes; listen, listen. That is what the novelists say. But they don't tell you what you will see and hear. All they can tell you is what they have seen and heard, in their time in this world, a third of it spent in sleep and dreaming, another third of it spent in telling lies.

For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects.

I think anything that opens my mind and triggers my imagination I'm reading. I like to read science fiction and imagine the character. Anything that keeps my imagination flowing.

Far more interesting than problem solving is problem creation.