The How to Train Your Dragon author tells us how 'wonderful, sunny' Los Angeles helped her overcome her fear of flying For many, many years, I was afraid of flying – the result of a deeply frightening trip in a rickety aircraft in China when I was eighteen.
On one memorable family occasion, we were at the airport in Rome and I just could not get on the plane. My body wouldn’t let me.
My husband flew home with our three children, and I had an extended and rather delightful journey by train, reading Middlemarch again.
I begin with this preface because when we began discussions with DreamWorks about adapting my How to Train Your Dragon books into films, I knew that eventually I would have to get on a plane to go to Los Angeles.
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