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Cressida Cowell

Cressida Cowell (born 15 April 1966) is an English children's author, popularly known for the novel series, How to Train Your Dragon, which has subsequently become an award-winning franchise as adapted for the screen by DreamWorks Animation. As of 2015, the series has sold more than seven million copies around the world.

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The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME"~ Old Wrinkly

Fear, Living, Old, Past, Present, Thinking

Remember, there is nothing wrong with a healthy sense of self-respect.

Healthy, Remember, Self, Sense, Wrong

But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages.

Age, Ages, Dark, Dragons, Know

Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be able to read. I was reading Kipling and PG Wodehouse and Shakespeare at the age of 11. The kind of description and detail I read I would not put in my books. I don't know how much you can fight that because you want children to read. So I pack in excitement and plot and illustrations and have a cliffhanger every chapter. Charles Dickens was doing cliffhangers way back when. But even with all the excitement you have to make children care about the characters.

Book, Charles, Children, Detail, Dickens, Reading

Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death

Days, Death, Degrees, Hopeless, Twelve

We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time.

Jaws, Moments, Peaceful, Precious Moments, Snatching

The past is another land, and we cannot go to visit. So, if I say there were dragons, and men who rode upon their backs, who alive has been there and can tell me that I'm wrong?

Dragons, Men, Past, Tell

Hiccup: Thank You For Nothing You Stupid Reptile.

Hiccup, Hiccups, Reptile, Reptiles, Stupid

For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.

Character, Defeat, Hero, Test, Time, Triumph

The Hero cares not for a wild winter's storm. For it carries him swift on the back of the storm. All may be lost and our hearts may be worn, but a Hero fights forever.

Fighting, Fights, Heart, Hearts, Hero, Swift

Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian culture.

Barbarians, Book, Culture, Horrible, Threat, Viking

The thing about grown ups is that they're always wanting you to be this Great Hero and Leader. What's wrong with being NORMAL, for Thor's sake? What's wrong with just being SO-SO at stuff? They're just totally unrealistic.

Hero, Leader, Stuff, Ups

There's no such thing as im-POSSIBLE, Hiccup, only im-PROBABLE. The only thing that limits us are the limits to our imagination

Hiccup, Hiccups, Imagination, Limits, Thing

GO FOR HIS EYES! OR BITE HIM ON THE NOSE! DRAGON NOSES ARE VERY SENSITIVE!" Oh, very helpful, Camicazi, very helpful. . . thought Hiccup. What if he doesn't obligingly hold me up to his nose? What if the only part I get close to is the TEETH?

Bite, Dragon, Dragons, Eye, Part, What If

There were dragons when I was a boy.

Boy, Boys, Dragons

Oh, for Thor's sake. . . " said Hiccup. "I thought that was just a story. . . " "Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.

Come, Hiccups, Past, Realise, Sake, Stories

A Chief must show no fear, no worry. . . A Chief is a leader first, and a man second.

Chief, Leader, Men, Worry

I wanted to be a King who would found a New World, not in some misty country far across the seas, but right here, right now, at home.

Country, Home, King, Kings

But then I have always been somewhat of a square peg in a round hole.

Hole, Holes, Round, Square, Square Pegs, Squares

I was not a natural. . . . This is the story of becoming. . . the Hard Way.

Becoming, Natural, Stories, Story, Way

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