Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

My son loves swords and shields and dragons.

As a kid, it was always my dream to open a closet and end up fighting dragons or battling aliens.

A world without dragons is a world not worth living in.

But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.

And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.

Sir Terry Pratchett - he was knighted in 2009, and on him it looked earned rather than entitled - wrote about dragons, wizards, turtles, witches, time-travelling monks, and suitcases with legs.

I'm the sort of person who, once I put dragons into the real world, feels obliged to think about how their presence would have changed history.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Life is all about the unexpected.

I'm crazy about surprises. I love chance.

I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.

As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nostrils. The other two pulled away from her breasts and added their voices to the call, translucent wings unfolding and stirring the air, and for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.

I desired dragons with a profound desire.

We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the evening, from his empty mug With gleaming eye glanced towards us: "I seen 'em myself!" he said fiercely.

Always remember, it's simply not an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

If travel has taught me nothing more, and it certainly has, it's this: you never know when some trifling incident, utterly without significance, may pitchfork you into adventure or, by the same token, may not.

To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore.

The adventure that the hero is ready for is the one he gets.

Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

You never know . . . that's what makes life interesting.

I suppose life is a little like that, isn't it, a message in a bottle pitched out to sea, to be carried by the winds and the tides, washing up on the beaches we could never imagine.

Yay!' he said. 'Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!