Cressida Cowell Quotes
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We all make mistakes. We all need second chances and even third, fourth, and fifth chances.
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Sometimes it is not until the Final Chapter that you realise what a quest has REALLY been about all along.
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Strange how a story sometimes seems to end just how it started, in a circle.
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Isn't Fate Artistic?
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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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History is a ghost story.
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But the winds will still blow when I am no longer here. The storms will still rage, and the forces of Empire and oppression, be they Roman or otherwise, will still be waiting at the corners of the ocean. The fight goes on for the Heroes of the Future.
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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.