Cornelia Funke Quotes

She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.

Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

I went to Paris, I went to France, I went to England, I went to Ireland. In my mind, I can go wherever I wanted to go. I left death row every day.

I want to get away, I want to fly away. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew.

I'd stare up at the sky and just dream a lot. Still do. I dreamed that I didn't belong here, that I was going to travel a lot.

The story of 'Highway' is completely about travel. It is about the fascination of travel to an extent that I don't want to even reach the destination and also being away from society gives you a certain view of the society, so that was the intention of the film.

I longed from a tiny child to get away on my own. When I was five, I walked out along the sands from Redcar, nearly all the way to Hartlepool.

I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.

When I was in school, I used to look out the window and see the big red double-deck buses driving by. It just looked so free.

Take a few minutes of every day to fantasize about how you would wander, travel, or explore if you could.

I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going? There was, I said, a magic in leaving a line of footprints stretching across Asia.

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.

Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travellin' through the pastures of the sky

Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.

For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.

I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.

I just want pieces of the world.

If I weren't doing what I'm doing today... I'd be traveling around the world on the back of a motorcycle.

I now walk into the wild.

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

I love traveling; it's, like, my perfect escape.