Diana Wynne Jones Quotes

• My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humour

• And it’s a pity too that I’ve no right to open your letters. I hope you don’t get many, or my conscience will give me no peace.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Peace, Humour

• Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.

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  Topics in Inspirational

• The truth between two people always cuts two ways.

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  Topics in Truth

• I think we ought to live happily ever after.

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in Think
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  It never did any child any harm to have something that was a tiny bit above them anyway, and I claim that anyone who can follow Doctor Who can follow absolutely anything.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Absolutely, Doctor

• This does make me very very careful, particularly in the second draft, to get it right, because you do feel that somebody in the future who may be extremely important for everybody, is going to have me behind them, and this is a responsibility, a huge one.

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• Mainly as sort of blueprints for dealing with most of the adults in their lives, to some extent with their fellows. It is this notion of aiming high and there’s always hope, aim low and you might as well stop now.

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• It’s a lucky child that knows that they’re a genius, unaimed and all that.

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• It seems to me that humour is everybody’s way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don’t know whether you’ve noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it’s nearly always a mini fantasy.

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• I think one of things is that all fantasy it seems to me works the way your brain basically works. This is perhaps a startling concept, but I think it’s true.

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• I mean one of the things about being alone is that you’ve no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let’s face it, we don’t often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.

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• I find it just simply takes me right back to those times, and I really can’t take it, I don’t want to, I mean, why should I face up to it? What good does it do me? I know it happened, and that’s it.

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• I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it’s just a question of finding this.

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• Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.

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• And indeed if you think you’re a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you’re no good, you’re not going to get anywhere.

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• Actually, in the wild, we’d be the only person that we wouldn’t recognize, if you think about it.

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• If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.

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  Tags in Myth

Diana Wynne Jones (18)

Birth:	16th August, 1934
Death:	26th March, 2011
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

About

Diana Wynne Jones was born in London, England. She was an English  novelist and writer. Some of her better-known works are the Chrestomanci series, the Dalemark series; the novels Howl's Moving Castle and Dark Lord of Derkholm; and The Tough Guide To Fantasyland. For Charmed Life, the first Chrestomanci novel, Jones won the 1978 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime award by The Guardian newspaper that is judged by a panel of children's writers. She has also won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award.

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