My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.
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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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Birth: | 16th August, 1934 |
Death: | 26th March, 2011 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Novelist, Writer |
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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