Lauren Craig asked 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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