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Cressida Cowell is an English children's author, popularly known for the book 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.In addition to her other publications, Cowell works with illustrator Neal Layton in the ongoing series of Emily Brown stories. The first in the series, That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown, won a Nestlé Children’s Book Award. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. April 1966
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Works

How to Train Your Dragon
How to Steal a Dragon's Sword
How to Speak Dragonese
How to Speak Dragonese
Cressida Cowell
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Famous Cressida Cowell Quotes

“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.”

Cressida Cowell

Source: How to Twist a Dragon's Tale

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

Cressida Cowell book How to Train Your Dragon

Source: How to Train Your Dragon

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

Cressida Cowell

Source: A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons

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

Cressida Cowell book How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse

Source: How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse

“Wartihog put up his hand. "What happens if we can't read, sir?"

"No boasting, Wartihog!" boomed Gobber. "Get some idiot to read it for you.”

Cressida Cowell book How to Train Your Dragon

Source: How to Train Your Dragon

“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.”

Cressida Cowell

Source: How to Twist a Dragon's Tale

Cressida Cowell Quotes about time

“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.”

Cressida Cowell book How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse

Source: How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse

“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.”

Cressida Cowell book How to Steal a Dragon's Sword

Source: How to Steal a Dragon's Sword

Cressida Cowell Quotes

“Thank you for nothing, you stupid reptile.”

Cressida Cowell book How to Train Your Dragon

Source: How to Train Your Dragon

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

Cressida Cowell book How to Speak Dragonese

Source: How to Speak Dragonese

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

Cressida Cowell book How to Train Your Dragon

Source: How to Train Your Dragon

“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?”

Cressida Cowell book How to Be a Pirate

Source: How to Be a Pirate

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

Cressida Cowell

Source: A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons

“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…”

Cressida Cowell book How to Steal a Dragon's Sword

Source: How to Steal a Dragon's Sword

“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.”

Cressida Cowell book How to Break a Dragon's Heart

Source: How to Break a Dragon's Heart

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

Cressida Cowell book How to Steal a Dragon's Sword

Source: How to Steal a Dragon's Sword

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

Cressida Cowell book How to Speak Dragonese

Source: How to Speak Dragonese

“I didn't mean to come here…
And I didn't mean to stay…
It's just where the sea wind blew me
One accidental day…”

Cressida Cowell

“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?”

Cressida Cowell book How to Break a Dragon's Heart

Source: How to Break a Dragon's Heart

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