“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer
“To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs…”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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“But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages.”
Cressida Cowell (1966) British writer
Source: A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons
Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer
On Writing Poetry (1995)
Context: I did not know that the rules about these things were different if you were female. I did not know that "poetess" was an insult, and that I myself would some day be called one. I did not know that to be told I had transcended my gender would be considered a compliment. I didn't know — yet — that black was compulsory. All of that was in the future. When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me.
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Burns
“Existence was really very simple when you did what you were told.”
William Goldman book The Princess Bride
Source: The Princess Bride
Neil Gaiman book Coraline
Often misattributed to but inspired by GK Chesterton:
Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.
Coraline (2002)