The Miami Herald — Author on her way to fame; could be next J.K. Rowling
This article has a brief interview with Cornelia Funke with a wonderful quote:
“I like when a child comes to me at a reading and they have a book that looks like it’s been read a dozen times. A collector who brings me a book that is perfectly clean — that is kind of a creepy feeling. I feel like that book is dead. Nobody will ever touch it again. 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.”