Quotes by Cressida Cowell

About Cressida Cowell:

Cressida Cowell is an English children's author, popularly known for the novel series, How to Train Your Dragon, which has subsequently become an award-winning film as adapted for the screen by DreamWorks Animation. In addition to her other publications, Cowell works with illustrator Neal Layton in the on-going series of Emily Brown stories. The first in the series, That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown, won a Nestlé Children’s Book Award.
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Sometimes it is only a True Friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak. Somebody who has spent a lot of time with us, and listens carefully to what we are trying to say, and tries to understand.

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

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That is a terrible plan." "Hiccup's plans are always t-terrible." "Hey! You're still here, aren't you?

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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

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I NAME THIS LAND TOMORROW, FOR IT SHALL LAST FOREVERMORE!

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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.

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And now that its ruby eyes are set into the gold, you cannot see their tear-shape, so they seem to be laughing rather than crying. It is a constant reminder to me of the human ability to create something beautiful even when things are at the darkest.

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History is a set of repeating circles, like the tide. The wind does blow through the ruins of tomorrow. But it is more a question of two steps forward, one step back. Humans and dragons make the same mistakes, again and again, but things do get bette...

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameCressida Cowell
  • DescriptionBritish writer
  • BornApril 15, 1966
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Children's Writer