Cressida Cowell Quotes
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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.
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Strange how a story sometimes seems to end just how it started, in a circle.
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Blood just draws more blood.
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Isn't Fate Artistic?
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And long after Kings are forgotten, and their names have fallen into dust, the good deeds and the actions of the Heroes live on in glory.
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Sneered Snotlout.
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Tomorrow. There was something hopeful, even about the word.
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Sometimes it is not until the Final Chapter that you realise what a quest has REALLY been about all along.