My children. My marriage. All those books.
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Cressida Cowell
British writer
United Kingdom · b. 1966
Arts and letters
Born in London, Cressida Cowell, 54, created the How To Train Your Dragon books which inspired a DreamWorks film franchise and television series. Never And Forever, the final book in her award-winning Wizards Of Once series, is out now. The children’s laureate, Cowell lives in London with her husband and three children.
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Thank You For The Music by Abba.
Anxiety. Have I finished this? Will I make the deadline? Could I have done that better? Are the children OK? Is the husband OK? Is the dog OK? Did I leave the oven on?
Watching my children play together for hours when they were very young.
Warm and golden, and it smells delicious.
I was a terrible secretary in a publishing company (clumsy, disorganised, hid letters behind the filing cabinet because I was supposed to have done something with them and I wasn’t sure what).
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